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Black Hole ‘Bounce’ Model Challenges Big Bang Origins

The Big Bang model begins with a point of infinite density where the laws of physics break down. This is a deep theoretical problem that suggests the beginning of the Universe is not fully understood, ...
NPR

What the "background noise of the universe" tells us about spacetime's origins

The Big Bang: The moment when the universe — everything in existence — began. ... Right? Turns out, it's not quite that simple. Today, when scientists talk about the Big Bang, they mean a period of ...
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What Really Happened At, And Even Before, The Big Bang? Researchers Are Using An Innovative Approach To Try To Find Out.

Specifically, the team is looking at the fraction of a second after the Big Bang, which is called Cosmic Inflation, because ...
NPR

How scientists have reshaped the Big Bang theory

Scientists have long been interested in the early history of the universe. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking helped popularize that the Big Bang was a singular point in time — but that's not how many ...
Space.com

Ripples from the Big Bang could transform our understanding of the universe — and we may be close to detecting them

It will be a view unlike any other — completely invisible, exceptionally quiet and utterly transformative. Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those quakes ...