And it's even worse, they argue, inflation is not even a scientific theory: “[I]nflationary cosmology, as we currently understand it, cannot be evaluated using the scientific method.” As ...

Cosmic inflation is what happened before, and set up, the Big Bang. Here's what it's like to live in an inflating Universe.

The study suggested that our universe formed from the collapse of a black hole, inside a bigger parent universe, rather than ...

Inflation may be the best-developed explanation for many features seen in the modern universe, these researchers say, but it still has problems. Science News headlines, in your inbox ...

What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

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, ...

In inflation, by contrast, the whole universe could have fit into a Planck volume, 10-33 centimeters across, much tinier indeed. So for some people (like me), the benefit of inflation isn’t that it’s ...

Inflation was physicists’ revision for the first few moments of the universe, conceived of in the 1980s to account for some weird effects in the universe. Advertisement The quantum ripples in ...

Inflationary theory dates to the late 1970s and early 1980s, when physicists were trying to understand why the universe is so uniform at the largest scales, including the cosmic microwave ...

Perhaps the most scientifically accepted idea comes from what’s known as inflationary cosmology, which is the idea that in the minuscule moments after the big bang, the universe rapidly and ...

This inflationary event set the stage of the remainder of the Big Bang, when our universe flooded with particles and radiation that would then grow up to become galaxies, stars, and planets.