The Royal Observatory of Greenwich, England, has crafted three simple animations to explain three very complex things: What’s inside a black hole, how do we know the age of the sun—did you know the Sun weighs 4,000 trillion trillion hippopotamuses?—and how big is the Universe.
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If you’re still a little confused about why everyone is talking about The Big Bang and gravitational waves and cosmic inflation and space and twists of light and so forth, it’s okay. Much smarter people are taking care of answering those questions for humanity. But it’s a big effing deal so us less wrinkled brain humans should try and understand it too. How? Simple. With a towel, an apple and a ping pong ball.
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According to very real and totally verifiable scientific research, we might live in a multiverse. No, really. The same research that revealed the first-ever direct evidence of Big Bang inflation
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Astronomers have long sought tangible proof that the Big Bang caused the universe to violently and exponentially expand in the first few milliseconds of its existence. Now they have it
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As you’ve probably heard, yesterday a team of scientists identified evidence of cosmic inflation right after the Big Bang
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Somebody’s going to win a Nobel Prize. At least that’s what the physics community is saying after the announcement on Monday that a Harvard team has found the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation right after the Big Bang
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I used to joke around about how I have learned so much more from YouTube than I ever did in school. I’m not joking anymore. Here’s a nice animation from Kurzgesagt that simplifies all you need to know about the Big Bang. It’s this type of education that plants a seed in my brain for future Wikipedia rabbit holes and YouTube note taking. All hail YouTube Class of 2014.
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Nothing lives forever, not even our universe. Eventually it’ll go kaput and be destroyed… but how? Smart people have wrapped their heads around the universe’s destruction and have come upwith three different theories. The Big Rip, Heat Death (or the Big Freeze) and the Big Crunch and Big Bounce. They all sound like they’re going to hurt.
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When you think of the big bang, that cosmic explosion that jump-started the ever-expanding universe
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We’ve known for ages that the universe is 13 and a quarter billionish years old for a while, but now a recent study is tweaking that number just slightly. Findings by the European Space Agency’s Planck space probe show that the universe is about 80 million years older than previously thought, bringing the total to 13.81 billion. More »
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