The Latest Breaking News from the Big Bang

When theoretical physicists like myself say that we’re studying why the universe exists, we sound like philosophers. But new data collected by researchers using Japan’s Subaru telescope has revealed insights into that very question.

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the most distant active supermassive black hole to date, and researchers aren't sure how it could have formed so early in the universe's history.

The invisible threadlike structure is anchored by a quasar raising questions about black holes

From the Catholic priest who pioneered it, to how we can (almost) see it, here are 5 fascinating facts about the Big Bang.

We have never seen dark matter and dark energy, so why do we think they exist? And what would happen if Europe's new space telescope Euclid finds evidence that they don't exist after all?

An international team of astronomers has detected a faint signal of gravitational waves reverberating through the universe. By using dead stars as a giant network of gravitational wave detectors, the collaboration – called NANOGrav – was able to measure a low-frequency hum from a chorus of ripples of spacetime.

Why didn't the universe collapse into a black hole during the earliest moments of the Big Bang? Simply put, because that's not how you make a black hole.

The James Webb Space Telescope has found key chemical fingerprints of supermassive stars just 440 million years after the Big Bang.

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that supermassive stars may lurk at the heart of globular clusters born shortly after the Big Bang.

The late physicist Stephen Hawking first asked me to work with him to develop “a new quantum theory of the Big Bang” in 1998. What started out as a doctoral project evolved over some 20 years into an intense collaboration that ended only with his passing on March 14 2018.

‘These findings bring us one step closer to understanding the nature of the first stars that formed after the Big Bang,’ the European Southern Observatory says of the University of Florence study