An international team led by Yale University has, for the first time, measured the mass of a type of supernova thought to belong to a unique subclass and confirmed that it surpasses…
Imagine a time when the entire Universe froze. According to a new model for dark energy, that is essentially what happened about 11.5 billion years ago, when the Universe was a quarter…
During the next decade, a delicate measurement of primordial light could reveal convincing evidence for the popular cosmic inflation theory, which proposes that a random, microscopic…