“Bazinga?” The term, pilfered from popular culture, might just capture the befuddlement that lingers around the Big Bang. For decades, the picture of a cosmic firecracker matter exploded outward from ...

Cosmic inflation tries to describe one brief but crucial phase in the Big Bang that launched the universe onto its expansion course. Credit: Christine Daniloff / MIT / ESA / Hubble / NASA Many ...

In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.—Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Humans have many ...

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