The Big Bang still explains an enormous part of the universe’s story, but this video goes straight to the place where that explanation starts to break down. It follows the point where physics can ...
Imagine we had somehow filmed the whole history of the universe and you could play the movie in reverse. It would start off much as things stand today: a vast and elegant web of galaxies and nebulae.
The big bang wasn’t a bang in the traditional sense—but it was nonetheless the start of important things: for one, space; another, time. Thirdly, it began the conditions and processes that eventually ...
Most popular science books start the universe with a single, explosive Big Bang. A new study argues something quieter but no less dramatic: the early cosmos may have been deep inside a gigantic black ...