Scientists believe that they have found the signal left in the sky from the ultra-rapid expansion of space in the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang, the first direct evidence of the theory yet discovered.
Before the Big Bang, around 13.8 billion years ago, some physicists have theorised that all the mass and energy of the universe in which we reside was compacted into an incredibly dense and tiny “seed” formed inside a black hole under the intense heat, pressure, and gravity of a giant collapsed star.
Gaia, the European Space Agency’s billion-star surveyor, blasted off this morning on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Physicists in Japan have provided the most compelling evidence yet that string theory could be true.
By combining the power of NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes and one of nature’s own natural “zoom lenses” in…