There’s news of a mysterious alignment of black holes. While that makes for good headlines, the actual scientific findings aren’t so mysterious.
Tension In The Universe
There is a bit of tension between different measurements of the universe, and it may mean our cosmological model is wrong.
Dreamt Of In Our Philosophy
In science we rely upon evidence, which raises the question of whether such parallel universes could ever be observed. The answer is … maybe?
Ever Onward, Ever Upward
Early cosmic inflation solves many problems in cosmology, but it also raises some problems of its own.
Beyond The Universe
The Universe is big. Really big. Just how far it goes is an interesting question.
A Bit Farther
The most distant galaxy yet has been observed with a redshift of z=11.1.
Not With A Bang But A Whimper
As it runs out of usable hydrogen to sustain it, the Sun will expand into a red giant for a time, and then what matter it has remaining will collapse into a white dwarf. And then what?
Are Cosmologists Fooling Themselves?
When you get a result you expect, you’re less likely to examine that result closely. This confirmation bias happens to the best of us, so how do we know that our scientific results are valid? How do we know we aren’t just fooling ourselves?
The Strange Physics Of Cyclic Cosmology
What if our universe arose from an earlier universe? This is the idea behind Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC).