The BOAT is the ruler of all gamma-ray bursts, releasing as much energy in seconds as the sun will in 10 billion years — and ...

After NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Swift Observatory spotted the BOAT, , an international team of astronomers ...

For decades, the Big Bang has been accepted as the definitive explanation for the origin of our universe. But what if ...

The first stars were not just lights in the dark, they were cosmic fire-starters that transformed the universe while seeding ...

The term ‘Big Bang’ might make you think of a massive explosion. Put the thought out of your head. Rather than an explosion, it was the start of everything in the universe.

It is a kind of afterglow of the Big Bang explosion, released when the cosmos was a mere 380,000 years old. The CMB provides a window into the hot, dense conditions at the beginning of the universe.

Discover why the universe has no centre or edge. Learn how the Big Bang happened everywhere at once and why every observer ...

This became known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. It is a kind of afterglow of the Big Bang explosion, released when the cosmos was a mere 380,000 years old.

If you think about the Big Bang as an explosion, this tiny interval is when the explosion in volume occurred. Protons and neutrons began to form after about a microsecond (10⁻⁶ seconds).

REGINA BARBER, BYLINE: When I was a kid, I pictured the Big Bang as a big explosion, a moment in time. But cosmologists now think of the Big Bang as an era of time, lasting hundreds of thousands ...