The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to ...
Cosmological redshift depends upon a galaxy's distance. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC) In 1929 Edwin Hubble published the first solid evidence that the universe is expanding. Drawing ...
RECENT spectral surveys of discrete radio sources have not revealed any significant dependence of spectral index on apparent intensity 1–3. It is therefore of interest to determine the way in which ...
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Giant cosmic ring discovery could blow up a core theory of the universe
Astronomers have stumbled onto a structure so vast and so oddly shaped that it threatens to upend one of cosmology’s most cherished assumptions about how the universe is built. The “Big Ring,” a ...
The long-standing problem of the cosmological constant, described both as “the worst prediction in the history of physics” and by Einstein as his “biggest blunder”, is being tackled with renewed ...
According to physics, the universe and everything in it can be explained by just a handful of equations. They’re difficult equations, all right, but their simplest feature is also the most mysterious ...
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