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A new study suggests that the cosmic web could have formed without relying on inflation driven by a scalar field. Instead, it ...

Physicist Alan Guth, the father of cosmic inflation theory, describes emerging ideas about where our universe comes from, what else is out there, and what caused it to exist in the first place.

What if its origin dated back not to the hot phase of the Big Bang, but to cosmic inflation, that period of rapid, exponential expansion? According to a study published in *Physical Review Letters ...

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Despite this, ΛCDM fails to account for phenomena like cosmic inflation, dark energy, and dark matter. Recent observations, like data from DESI (Dark Energy Survey Instrument), have suggested pot ...

The act of inflation took the quantum foam of space-time and expanded it to larger scales, laying down the gravitational seeds that would someday grow up to be stars, galaxies and the cosmic web.

According to new research, the earliest seeds of structures may have been laid down by gravitational waves sloshing around in ...