Cosmology is in crisis.
Rather like a gigantic balloon, the Universe has been constantly expanding ever since the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago.
The crux of the problem now shaking up the world of cosmology has to do with the rate at which this is happening..
Stephen William Hawking, (born 8 January 1942) is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge..
Pontzen can hedge their bets by zooming out and considering the big picture — large agglomerations of material like clouds of gas, or systems whose collective behavior is predictable and not dependent on individual variations
We can boil pasta without keeping track of every molecule in the water
The rest is invisible stuff called dark matter and dark energy (roughly 27 percent and 68 percent)
Cosmic inflation is an example of yet another exotic adjustment made to the standard model
Four years after one experiment found tentative signs of the "cosmic dawn," the era of the first stars, another experiment finds nothing
Keep up with the latest cosmology news - learn about the hunt for dark matter, ponder the nature of dark energy, and discover the earliest galaxies
