Imagine a universe where the vast majority of matter is like an invisible ghost, permeating space yet remaining completely ...

Dark matter has puzzled physicists for nearly a century, remaining one of modern science's greatest mysteries. Although ...

Conventional thinking goes that the Big Bang was the beginning of everything – matter, dark matter, space, energy, all of it.

Caltech theoretical physicist Sean Carroll explores what existed before the Big Bang in his new book, "The Big Picture." Produced by Delano Samuels and Jessica Orwig Follow BI Video: On Twitter ...

Marcus du Sautoy, mathematician and author of The Great Unknown, explained why we don't really know what happened before the Big Bang. He told Business Insider: "We’re really not too sure and in ...

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Upcoming studies into cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, such as CMB-S4, could put the idea of warm inflation and ...

Leonard's relationship with Priya in The Big Bang Theory challenges the narrative surrounding his relationship with Penny in ...

That burst of inflation in our universe is, of course, key evidence for our universe having emerged from a hot, dense point—the Big Bang. However, what happened before the Big Bang—and whether ...

It contains a new mechanism where this production occurs just before the Big Bang, during cosmic inflation, leading to dark matter being formed much earlier than in existing theories via freeze-in.