Tag: Cosmology

Move aside Draculas, Nosferatus, and Edward Cullens, please make way for the Jiangshi! You may think you’re familiar with vampire lore. They wear cloaks, come from some kind of ennobled bloodline, sometimes sparkle, afraid of the sun, stake through the heart, but most importantly, and almos...

Truthfully, I said nobody knows, but it also occurred to me that even if the universe were spatially closed like the surface of the Earth, it might be expanding so quickly that even traveling near the speed of light, your spaceship would never come back to where it started. Think of the universe ...

Since JWST’s launch, astronomers have used it to investigate the young Universe. The Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS Survey) broke the record for largest deep-field image taken by JWST, previously held by the first lensing cluster image released. This small patch of...

Cosmology is a branch of astronomy that deals with the origin, nature, evolution, and the ultimate fate of the Universe. It also involves studying exotic concepts like dark energy, dark matter, string theory, inflation theory, the concept of a multiverse, etc. Cosmology essentially covers the entire...

Birth of the Universe The cornerstone of modern cosmology, the Big Bang theory posits that the universe began as an infinitely hot and dense point nearly 13.8 billion years ago. As the universe rapidly expanded and cooled, matter and energy began to condense, eventually giving rise to galaxies, s...

Often, ancient explanations for celestial phenomena are dismissed as mere mythology. However, the Vedic perspective stands apart. The Big Bang theory, a cornerstone of modern cosmology, finds resonance in the “Big Roar” described in the Bhagavatam. The Bhagavatam (verse 3.10.7) states th...