Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Cosmic voids that stretch across millions even billions of ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led some cosmologists to wonder if our universe could have ...

Sometimes, a picture can be worth much more than a thousand words. For instance, one measure associated with the pictures below—new high-definition snapshots of the cosmos in its infancy—is 1,900 ...

The question of whether the cosmos goes on forever is no longer just a late night thought experiment, it is a live research problem that cuts to the heart of modern physics. Astrophysicists are using ...

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 ...

Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led some cosmologists to wonder if our universe could have been born in a black hole. Photograph by NASA Goddard Gazing up at the ...