Three papers published in JCAP presenting the sixth and final data release of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer a new map of the “infant” Universe, confirm the “Hubble tension,” and rule out a set ...

Let's rewind the clock back…oh, I don't know, let's say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his general theory of relativity. It was a masterpiece, giving us our modern-day ...

This course, delivered in English, provides a complete and updated view of the main fields of modern astrophysics, including astronomical detectors and techniques, black holes and neutron stars, ...

It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is described extremely well by quantum theory, while the world of gravitation ...

To study the origins of our universe is to struggle with profound chicken-or-egg questions. We know the Big Bang happened. Cosmologists can see its afterglow in the sky. But no one knows whether the ...

The Ph.D. consists of four years of study and research. During the first year, students are offered a number of courses (see section Teaching) covering a wide spectrum of topics, and undergo ...

There are a lot of (Python) cosmology libraries out there, from big projects -- including Astropy, CLASS, and CAMB-- down to small personal scripts. These libraries perform many of the same tasks, but ...

Confucian cosmology was never about superstition. Its real power lay in de-centering authority – binding rulers to a higher standard they couldn’t control. The statue at Fan Zhongyan’s tomb site in ...

Cosmology of Kyoto is a first-person horror exploration game where players navigate a deeply haunted yet surprisingly educational terrain. Originally released in 1993, Cosmology of Kyoto and its ...

In 1989, Rocky Kolb and Mike Turner published The Early Universe – a seminal book that offered a comprehensive introduction to the then-nascent field of particle cosmology, laying the groundwork for a ...

The Gruber Foundation today recognized four scientists who have made significant contributions to the fields of cosmology, genetics, and neuroscience. Recipients of the Gruber International Prize ...

It all started with a big bang has been the commonly accepted origin story of our universe for decades. But what if it’s wrong? What if, before starting 13 billion years ago as a tiny ball of ...