The early universe experienced a phase of rapid expansion, known as inflation. For decades, cosmologists assumed that this ...

Inflation is now a built-in piece of our standard story of cosmic evolution. But it’s still controversial. In 2014, researchers claimed to have seen ripples from inflation imprinted on the ...

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 ...

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

The researchers’ proposal requires three conditions that must be met to falsify the anthropic principle. First, cosmic inflation must be proved. This theory describes the universe’s superluminal ...

Primordial nucleosynthesis after embryonic inflation, the subject of Chapter 6, yields spatially varying abundances of elements, including heavy elements in all the densest cosmic regions. The theory ...