standard model of cosmology
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
New observations from the Planck mission don’t resolve anomalies like the CMB “cold spot”
A new analysis of Planck mission data has provided no new insights into the anomalies it detected, leaving the door…