There's a hole in the story of how our universe came to be. First, the universe inflated rapidly, like a balloon. Then, everything went boom. But how those two periods are connected has eluded ...
The simulations modeled a time at the end of inflation, a period when the universe massively ballooned in size. At that time, the universe contained only energy and inflatons — a type of quantum ...
Dark matter and dark energy may have driven inflation, the exponential expansion of the Universe moments after the Big Bang. A new cosmological model proposed by physicists at the University of Warsaw ...