For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with ...

Timeline of our universe, according to the standard model. This diagram represents 13.77 billion years of time. The far left depicts the earliest moment we can now probe, when a period of “inflation” ...

For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with ...

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), those years amount to nearly 20—and now the ...

Is the universe really uniform? A recent study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) explores this fundamental question using an innovative technique based on the ...

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