‘Cosmic fossils’ left by black holes created before the big bang may still shape the universe - Universe may have been ...

Black holes formed before the Big Bang may still exist as cosmic fossils, offering new clues about dark matter and the origin ...

The annual Chester Peterson Jr. public lecture series offered Kansas State University students and faculty the chance to hear ...

New research suggests that relic black holes from before the big bang may still shape galaxies today. These black holes could ...

We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out — and we have only just begun.” Andrew ...

A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the Big Bang has always posed a problem. Physics can describe a great deal about the universe ...

What Came Before The Big Bang?

Imagine we had somehow filmed the whole history of the universe and you could play the movie in reverse. It would start off much as things stand today: a vast and elegant web of galaxies and nebulae.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Suppose at some point the universe ceases to expand, and instead begins collapsing in on itself (as in the “Big Crunch” scenario), and eventually becomes a supermassive black hole.

The big bang wasn’t a bang in the traditional sense—but it was nonetheless the start of important things: for one, space; another, time. Thirdly, it began the conditions and processes that eventually ...