SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviewsBad Astronomy All Posts Tagged The Big Bang What reionized the Universe, and when? New observations may tell us when the cosmos became transparent. By Phil Plait | 4 weeks ago This galaxy was already grown-up and spinning 13.3 billion years ago! JD1 shows signs of coherent rotation when it was less than 500 million years old. By Phil Plait | 2 months ago The (maybe) most distant galaxy ever seen smashes the old record... by a lot If confirmed, HD1 is the most distant galaxy seen, 13.5 billion light-years away! By Phil Plait | 5 months ago Earth has an exhaust leak that goes way back to the Big Bang This is not the stuff that comes out of your car. By Elizabeth Rayne | 5 months ago Watch as a million galaxies form in the first billion years of the cosmos Dramatic simulation shows light emerging at the beginning of the cosmos. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago How did supermassive black holes get so big so fast? To find out, scientists turn to the dark sector New idea posits supermassive black holes were born that way. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago Instead of a Big Bang, there could have been… a Big Bounce? The universe might have literally bounced into being. By Elizabeth Rayne | 7 months ago Outer space is a freezer now, but it used to be an inferno It was hot out there, as in out, out there. By Elizabeth Rayne | 7 months ago Particle accelerator reveals the early universe’s mysterious X particles These particles could change our picture of how the early universe evolved. By Cassidy Ward | 8 months ago Supervoid from the Big Bang finally comes out of the dark (energy) The Eridanus supervoid could reveal some really dark stuff...as in, dark energy. By Elizabeth Rayne | 8 months ago Load More
What reionized the Universe, and when? New observations may tell us when the cosmos became transparent. By Phil Plait | 4 weeks ago
This galaxy was already grown-up and spinning 13.3 billion years ago! JD1 shows signs of coherent rotation when it was less than 500 million years old. By Phil Plait | 2 months ago
The (maybe) most distant galaxy ever seen smashes the old record... by a lot If confirmed, HD1 is the most distant galaxy seen, 13.5 billion light-years away! By Phil Plait | 5 months ago
Earth has an exhaust leak that goes way back to the Big Bang This is not the stuff that comes out of your car. By Elizabeth Rayne | 5 months ago
Watch as a million galaxies form in the first billion years of the cosmos Dramatic simulation shows light emerging at the beginning of the cosmos. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago
How did supermassive black holes get so big so fast? To find out, scientists turn to the dark sector New idea posits supermassive black holes were born that way. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago
Instead of a Big Bang, there could have been… a Big Bounce? The universe might have literally bounced into being. By Elizabeth Rayne | 7 months ago
Outer space is a freezer now, but it used to be an inferno It was hot out there, as in out, out there. By Elizabeth Rayne | 7 months ago
Particle accelerator reveals the early universe’s mysterious X particles These particles could change our picture of how the early universe evolved. By Cassidy Ward | 8 months ago
Supervoid from the Big Bang finally comes out of the dark (energy) The Eridanus supervoid could reveal some really dark stuff...as in, dark energy. By Elizabeth Rayne | 8 months ago
