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Physicists Predict When The Universe Will End in a Reverse Big Bang

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

George Smoot dies at 80; Nobel laureate researched the universe’s origins at UC Berkeley

He was a co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics for finding the background radiation that finally pinned down the Big ...

Deep space exploration as NASA’s SPHEREx maps the galaxies

NASA's SPHEREx is exploring the galaxies to answer the question of where we all come from while sending back jaw-dropping ...
The Daily Californian

Former UC Berkeley professor, Nobel laureate George Smoot dies at 80

Smoot is best known for his Nobel prize winning research that confirmed the Big Bang Theory, leading a team that developed ...
Singularity Hub

What If the Big Bang Wasn’t the Beginning? Research Suggests It May Have Taken Place Inside a Black Hole

Our universe may have been born in a gravitational crunch that formed a very massive black hole—followed by a bounce inside it. The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a ...
Space.com

Could dark matter have been forged in a 'Dark Big Bang?'

Our common understanding of the universe tells us that all matter and energy were created at the beginning of time during a period of rapid inflation called the Big Bang. However, in 2023, Katherine ...
LAist

Big-Bang Detective Work Wins Physics Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded to two Americans whose findings lend support to the big-bang scenario of the universe's origins. The winners are John Mather, 60, who works at NASA's Goddard ...
Futurism

Scientists Say There May Have Been a Second Big Bang

Instead of a single Big Bang that brought the universe into existence billions of years ago, cosmologists are starting to suspect there may have been a second transformative event that could explain ...
LAist

Nobel Physics Prize Goes to Big-Bang Work

The Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded to two Americans whose findings lend support to the big-bang scenario of the universe's origins. The winners are John Mather, 60, who works at NASA's Goddard ...
Quanta Magazine

Hopes of Big Bang Discoveries Ride on a Future Spacecraft

Physicists and cosmologists will have a new probe of primordial processes when Europe launches the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). At a conference in Japan a few years ago, David Dunsky ...

The Big Bang Theory's Original Title Would Have Probably Ruined The Show

"The Big Bang Theory" has a pretty perfect title - but its "original" placeholder titled might have ruined the entire show.
Los Angeles Times

‘Big Bang’ gives Escondidan’s physics toy a spin

Thanks to the lovable geeks on TV’s “The Big Bang Theory,” an Escondido inventor’s decades-old toy is now spinning with new life. On the popular show’s Feb. 16 episode, astrophysicist Raj tried to ...