Cosmology – A brief review of the standard model
Cosmology, the study of the evolution and the structure of the Universe, has a long history in various areas, such […]
Spacetime torsion: The end of major cosmological problems?
A cosmologist has shown that an already existing extension of general relativity may eliminate major problems in gravitational physics, and […]
Modeling of the flow of time – Big Bang in a laboratory
For the first time, emulating a Big Bang-like event in metamaterials allowed physicists to show why the cosmological arrow of […]
Dwarfs, worms and phantoms – A few words about the astrophysical lexicon
Astrophysics sometimes sounds like science fiction: our Universe is filled with strange substances or objects, and theories describing its evolution or its nature can have some rather catchy names. Dwarf stars, dark matter, dark energy, Big bang, wormholes, phantom energy… What are all these things, and where do those funky names come from?
The fate of the Universe
When thinking about the Universe and looking at the sky, a natural question comes to everyone’s mind: how did all […]