He led a team of scientists who helped confirm that a Big Bang was the source of the universe. The discovery earned him a ...

While working at Berkeley, he collaborated with John Mather on a NASA research study probing the origins of the universe. The two physicists won a Nobel Prize.

A series of recent astronomical findings has placed the standard Big Bang model under scrutiny. From JWST deep-field images ...

Earlier this year, scientists revealed that they had finally found evidence of theorized primordial gravitational waves, providing the best proof to-date that the Big Bang Theory is correct. Now, ...

Scientists have been using complicated, hypothetical particles to explain the Big Bang, but this theory posits that a simpler ...

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George Fitzgerald Smoot III, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe began with a Big Bang, died on Sept. 18 in ...

Primordial black holes that formed during the earliest moments of the universe could have swollen quickly to supermassive sizes, complex cosmological simulations have revealed. The discovery could ...

How did we get here? Humanity, life on Earth, our planet itself—how did everything in the universe come into being. Well, as far as we know, it all started with the Big Bang. But while the Big Bang ...

George Smoot, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped take an image of the universe in its infancy, providing strong support for the Big Bang theory and new insight into the origins of the cosmos, ...