Anisotropic inflationary cosmology extends the standard isotropic inflation paradigm by allowing departures from perfect spatial uniformity during the rapid expansion of the early Universe. In many ...

Cosmic inflation posits a transient epoch of accelerated expansion in the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang, driven by the dynamics of one or more scalar fields collectively known as ...

Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far enough back toward ...

As physicists continue their struggle to find and explain the origin of dark matter, the approximately 80% of the matter in the universe that we can't see and so far haven't been able to detect, ...

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Repulsive gravity at the quantum scale would have flattened out inhomogeneities in the early universe First light The cosmic microwave background, as imaged by the European Space Agency’s Planck ...