Big Bang
The Aftermath of a Neutron Star Collision Resembles the Conditions in the Early Universe
Neutron stars are extraordinarily dense objects, the densest in the Universe. They pack a lot of matter into a small…
The Connection Between Black Holes and Dark Energy is Getting Stronger
The discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe has often been attributed to the force known as dark energy.…
How Gravitational Waves Could Let Us See the First Moments After the Big Bang
Cosmology has had several ground-breaking discoveries over the last 100+ years since Einstein developed his theory of relativity. Two of…
Future Gravitational Wave Observatories Could See the Earliest Black Hole Mergers in the Universe
In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed they made the first-ever detection of gravitational waves…
Estimating the Basic Settings of the Universe
The Standard Model describes how the Universe has evolved at large scale. There are six numbers that define the model…
Webb Sees Globular Clusters Forming in the Early Universe
Picture the Universe's ancient beginnings. In the vast darkness, light was emitted from a particular galaxy only 460 million years…
Dwarf Galaxies Banished the Darkness and Lit Up the Early Universe
During the Universe's Dark Ages, dense primordial gas absorbed and scattered light, prohibiting it from travelling. Only when the first…
New Telescopes to Study the Aftermath of the Big Bang
The NSF just awarded researchers at UChicago to start developing the CMB-S4 experiment, which will map the earliest moments of…
The Big Bang: What is it? Why study it? What happened before? How will it all end?
Approximately 13.8 billion years ago, the greatest event in all of existence occurred that literally created existence itself. This event…
Have We Seen the First Glimpse of Supermassive Dark Stars?
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) examines what are known as dark…