New observations show we don’t really understand the universe’s expansion.
- Reader in Astrophysics, UCL
From blindingly bright and burning hot to pleasantly ‘candle-lit’, the first years of the universe would have been spectacular to see.
Cosmologists who were hoping to be the next Einstein have had to bin their theories.
It’s all relative – why scientists understand time in a completely different way.
Dark energy is a completely unknown source making up 70% of the universe. Will any of the new projects designed to find out what it is succeed?
Confirmation bias, the psychological effect that makes people unconsciously interpret information to confirm their beliefs, is a big threat to cosmology.
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