We do not live inside of a black hole, but that does not rule out the possibility that our universe was born from one. Oddly, if you were to take all the matter contents of the universe and cram them ...

What if there are other universes, just like ours? With an infinite number of Earths? With uncountable versions of you? And ...

Cosmologists have long treated black holes and the Big Bang as separate extremes of physics, one swallowing light, the other ...

All you need is some string. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Has the universe been around forever? If so, perhaps it's been ...

Everything has to end eventually – but does that include the universe itself? And if so, how? And when? It might be hard to imagine a catastrophe big enough to affect the entirety of existence, but ...

It’s easy to envisage other universes, governed by slightly different laws of physics, in which no intelligent life, nor indeed any kind of organized complex systems, could arise. Should we therefore ...

How did the universe start? Did we begin with a big bang, or was there a bounce? Might the cosmos evolve in a cycle of expansion and collapse, over and over for all eternity? Now, in two papers, ...

"First published in the USA by Viking Penguin, 2005"--T.p. verso. Prologue. The power of ideas -- 1. The six epochs -- The intuitive linear view versus the historical exponential view -- The six ...

Physicist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking presents a program in Seattle in 2012. Note his (outdated) assertion that a singularity, and the Big Bang, precedes the epoch of cosmic inflation, ...

This logarithmic view of the Universe shows our solar system, the galaxy, the cosmic web, and the limits of what's observable out to a distance of 46.1 billion light-years away. This view is only ...

I have always said that Stan Lee is one of the hardest working stars at San Diego Comic-Con, attending more panels, launching more projects, participating in more signings and gatecrashing more ...