The Big Bang may not have ... formed during a transition from the universe's last contraction to the current expansion phase, which occurred before the Big Bang. If this hypothesis holds, the ...

From one billion to three billion years after the big bang many ... to glow brightly before it disappeared. The light of these "quasars" can be seen across the depths of the universe.

These theories aim to address questions the Big Bang does not fully resolve, keeping the debate about the universe’s origins alive and dynamic. Related: What happened before the Big Bang?

People talk about the universe starting with a Big Bang, but how could we possibly know anything about an event that happened billions of years ago – before our planet was even formed?

Neil Turok, renowned cosmologist and Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh, suggests a mirror universe existed before the Big Bang, moving backward in time. This bold ...

The 'temperature' of deep space has been measured as around 3K, not absolute zero, due to the afterglow of the Big Bang. This radiation is now used to 'map' the early Universe. The diagram below ...

Is our Universe really the only one? A new theory that hopes to solve one of the biggest problems in physics, may have rewritten our perception of time, and found a way through the Big Bang.

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 ...

they may have unleashed enormous amounts of water that flooded the early universe — and potentially made life possible just millions of years after the Big Bang, new simulations suggest.

One of the most important gaps in our understanding of our Universe’s history is the “Cosmic Dawn.” The period from about 50 million years to one billion years after the Big Bang when the first stars ...