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Introduction: Cosmology - New Scientist
Cosmologists study the universe as a whole: its birth, growth, shape, size and eventual fate. The vast scale of the universe became clear in the 1920s when Edwin Hubble proved that "spiral ...
Cosmology news, articles and features | New Scientist
cosmology Physics The 30-year fight over how many numbers we need to describe reality In 1992, three physicists began an argument about how many numbers we need to fully describe the universe.
The universe lines up along the 'axis of evil'. Coincidence?
“Studying the axis of evil is certainly worthwhile. However, I don’t believe it represents a major gap in our understanding of early-universe cosmology.”
The cosmic landscape of time that explains our universe's expansion
A strange new conception of how time warps across the universe does away with cosmology's most mysterious entity, dark energy
A legendary cosmologist on how to find a deeper theory of the universe
JIM PEEBLES is widely known as the architect of modern cosmology – and its nice-guy-in-chief. Awarding his half-share of the 2019 Nobel prize for physics, the committee said he “took on the ...
We live in a cosmic void so empty that it breaks the laws of cosmology
Space We live in a cosmic void so empty that it breaks the laws of cosmology Mounting evidence suggests our galaxy sits at the centre of an expanse of nothingness 2 billion light years wide.
The radical idea that space-time remembers could upend cosmology
Physics The radical idea that space-time remembers could upend cosmology There are new hints that the fabric of space-time may be made of "memory cells" that record the whole history of the universe.
Dark energy bombshell sparks race to find a new model of the universe
‘Shocking’ results from a major astronomical study have raised doubts about the standard model of cosmology, forcing scientists to consider new ways of understanding dark energy and gravity
Planck shows almost perfect cosmos – plus axis of evil
The universe is almost perfect, 80 million years older than we thought, and maybe a little bit evil. That's the conclusion of a four-year mission conducted by the European Space Agency's Planck ...
Einstein’s theories tested on the largest scale ever – he was right
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has been proven right on the largest scale yet. An analysis of millions of galaxies shows that the way they have evolved and clustered over ...
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