Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...
The history of the universe always feels hard to fathom. After the Big Bang, it is believed that the universe was filled with hot gas and light. Eventually, matter started to cool down, and the first ...
How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the ...
About 13.8 billion years ago, the newborn universe was a blazing sea of energy and particles. Within minutes of the Big Bang, conditions had cooled enough for the very first atoms—mostly hydrogen, ...