The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if our ...

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Cosmologists have long treated black holes and the Big Bang as separate extremes of physics, one swallowing light, the other ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when all of space, time, and energy were born from a single infinitely dense ...

Physicists have started to treat a once-fringe idea with surprising seriousness: that our entire observable universe might be the interior of a black hole that formed in some larger cosmos. The notion ...