Dark energy and black holes are two of the most mysterious topics when it comes to space, but they might actually be linked.

The ‘inflationary’ model of cosmology explains many large-scale features of the Universe as the result of a primordial period ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool called Effort.jl that lets them simulate the structure of the universe using ...

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...

Astrophysicists at the University of Chicago have developed physics-based models suggesting that dark energy could be changing over time. Dark energy, the mysterious force causing the universe to ...

Dark-energy evidence suggests the universe will end in a “big crunch” roughly 20 billion years from now. The universe is nearing the halfway point of what may be a 33-billion-year lifespan, according ...

Dark matter has two central properties: it has mass like regular matter, and unlike regular matter, it reacts weakly or not at all with light. Neutrinos satisfy these two criteria, but neutrinos move ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

Most explanations rely on "dark energy" to explain the Universe's accelerating expansion rate, but a new study takes a different path.

UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws ...

It presents modern cosmology as an unfinished business ... in so far that the currently accepted theory of the cosmos is sometimes called the concordance model. How Stephen Hawking flip-flopped on ...

Since 1991, UChicago’s Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics has connected students from Chicago Public Schools with world ...