standard model of cosmology

The JWST Looked Over the Hubble’s Shoulder and Confirmed that the Universe is Expanding Faster

It's axiomatic that the Universe is expanding. However, the rate of expansion hasn't remained the same. It appears that the…

6 days ago

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…

4 months ago

Remember those Impossible Galaxies Found by JWST? It Turns Out They Were Possible After All

When the James Webb Space Telescope provided astronomers with a glimpse of the earliest galaxies in the Universe, there was…

4 months ago

Two Giant Structures Have Been Found Billions of Light-Years Away

The early universe, according to the Standard Model of Cosmology, ought to be a fairly homogenous place, with little structure…

12 months ago

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…

1 year ago

The First Light in the Universe Helps Build a Dark Matter Map

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration used years of cosmic microwave background data to create a new map of Dark…

2 years ago

Are Black Holes the Source of Dark Energy?

In a series of papers, an international team claims they've found the first observational evidence that supermassive black holes are…

2 years ago

A Detailed Simulation of the Universe Creates Structures Very Similar to the Milky Way and its Surroundings

An international team of astrophysicists has created the most accurate simulation of cosmic evolution to date, which reproduced many of…

3 years ago

Evidence is Building that the Standard Model of the Expansion of the Universe Needs some new Ideas

Astronomers have measured the Hubble constant using astrophysical masers, and the result makes our understanding of cosmic expansion even worse.

5 years ago

What is the Steady State Hypothesis?

When it comes to cosmological theories, the Big Bang theory has historically had only one big contender - the Steady…

5 years ago