We have no idea what dark matter is, other than it’s some source of gravity that is completely invisible but exerts way more pull that all of the regular matter. More than all of the stars, all of the gas, all of the black holes…unless...

At CERN, physicists are searching for answers to some of the biggest questions ever — like how the universe started and where everything comes from. To get one step closer to an answer, CERN scientists recreated the first moment after...

In 2023, a team of researchers proposed that our universe experienced not one, but TWO Big Bangs about a month apart from one another. The first for the stuff described by our Standard Model of Particle Physics. And the second for that...

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The Big Bang theory: In the beginning, the universe was packed tightly together into a point of infinite density. It then exploded into the universe we see today. This is actually...

Explore the fascinating journey to uncover the universe's missing baryons—ordinary matter that had eluded scientists for decades. From the origins of baryonic matter after the Big Bang to groundbreaking discoveries using fast radio...

Cosmologist Rocky Kolb (Chicago) provides a brief background on the mystery of dark energy while explaining why the phenomenon is personally bothering him.

University of Chicago cosmologist Rocky Kolb relates how he reacts very differently to dark matter than dark energy: dark matter he regards as an opportunity, while dark energy "drives him nuts".