It is 25 years since the workshop that marked the birth of the inflationary Universe and the laying of the theoretical foundations of modern cosmology. Following a flood of data, the inflationary ...

The expanding Universe, full of galaxies and the complex structure we observe today, arose from a smaller, hotter, denser, more uniform state. But even that initial state had its origins, with cosmic ...

Last year’s reports that the BICEP2 telescope had uncovered evidence for cosmic inflation turned out to be a false alarm, but researchers in the field haven’t given up. Matthew R Francis describes how ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a recent paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the first, very rapid ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to ...

The originally invisible gravitational wave signals were amplified by parametric resonance gain mechanism, and then detected by primordial gravitational wave detectors. CREDIT Image by European Space ...