Dark matter, one of the Universe’s greatest mysteries, may have been born blazing hot instead of cold and sluggish as ...

For a fraction of a second after the big bang occurred 13.8 billion years ago, most physicists believe, the newborn universe dramatically ballooned in size, jumping from being smaller than a proton to ...

The ‘inflationary’ model of cosmology explains many large-scale features of the Universe as the result of a primordial period of exponential, almost instantaneous cosmic expansion called inflation.

INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE : THE QUEST FOR A NEW THEORY OF COSMIC ORIGINS ALAN H GUTH WITH A FOREWORD BY ALAN LIGHTMAN ...