An illustration of the cosmic web, the universe’s large-scale structure of composed of galaxy-rich clumps and filaments alongside giant intergalactic ...

illustration of how a tiny Bose–Einstein condensate has been used to simulate the expansion of space that occurred moments after the Big Bang. (Courtesy: Campbell McLauchlan) Unfortunately for the ...

For instance, one measure associated with the pictures below—new high ... an acceleration in the rate of cosmic expansion. So most of the universe’s “stuff” is actually in the form of ...

Getty Images Illustration showing the evolution of ... We had expected to observe the opposite: in an expanding universe, the gravitational pull of all the matter in the cosmos should gently ...