Mr Hawking, who died aged 76 in 2018, wrote his book on the Big Bang in 1988. Tackling concepts from theoretical cosmology, it was supposedly written for readers with no prior knowledge of physics ...

Over the past decade, cosmology has been embroiled in a growing ... microwave static produced just 380,000 years after the Big Bang. As Cepheids get brighter, they pulsate more slowly, enabling ...

Credit: Deanne Fitzmaurice/National Geographic Image Collection/Alamy Our universe began with a bang—a big bang. The explosion stretched the very fabric of spacetime, sending superheated matter ...

Our current understanding of the universe is based on the Big Bang model. The model proposes that approximately 13.8 billion years ago, the universe came into existence as a singularity and ...

Science columnist Brian Greene is a mathematician and physicist at Columbia University, the author of bestselling cosmology books such as The Hidden Reality, co-founder of the World Science ...