For more than two decades, one idea has anchored our picture of the cosmos: the universe isn't just expanding, it's speeding up, driven by a mysterious "dark energy" baked into empty space itself. That conclusion won the 2011 Nobel Prize... Continue Reading →
Physicists are closer than ever to answering fundamental questions about the origins of the universe by learning more about its tiniest particles. University of Cincinnati Professor Alexandre Sousa in a new paper outlined the next 10 years of global research... Continue Reading →
Stephen was born in Oxford on 8 January 1942, the three hundredth anniversary of the death of Galileo Galilei. His father, Frank Hawking, came from a family of tenant farmers in Yorkshire who suffered hard times during the agricultural depression at... Continue Reading →
New research suggests an unseen 'mirror world' of particles that interacts with our world only via gravity that might be the key to solving a major puzzle in cosmology today -- the Hubble constant problem. The Hubble constant is the... Continue Reading →