This theory, first devised two decades ago, proposes that the dominant expansion in the early universe some 14 billion years ago, known as cosmological inflation, took place in a warm environment.

Therefore, astronomers have long been puzzled by post-starburst galaxies, which suddenly stop making new stars after a short period of intense star formation. The common theory is that two ...

The system imaged by ALMA (called L1448 IRS3B) is a perfect place to look at formation mechanisms. L1448 IRS3B is still in the early phase of its evolution and is probably less than 150 thousand ...

New theory on formation of oldest continents. ScienceDaily. Retrieved April 13, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 03 / 120312140318.htm. University of Bonn.

Two months ago, Dr. Hal Levison from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado, co-authored a paper that described a theory of “pebble formation” for gas giants. He has now ...

Supercomputer simulations of giant radio galaxy formation challenge current theoretical models. Story by Science X staff • 3mo. E nabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria ...

In 2011, a pair of NASA spacecraft began orbiting the Moon to create a map of its gravitational field. The GRAIL mission (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) discovered gravitational ...