This cataclysm would result from a change in the Higgs field, a quantum field that pervades all of space. It would be ...

Most people have never heard of vacuum decay, but if it happened it would be the biggest natural disaster in the universe. If ...

But here's the thing: each of these bubbles was a universe. In this picture, our universe is one bubble in a frothy sea of bubble universes. That's the multiverse hypothesis in a bubbly nutshell.

While many regions of space (purple, red and cyan ... event would have left is nowhere to be seen. If the 'bubble' that gave rise to our Universe collided with another in the early stages ...

Scientists say they know how the universe will end. It won't be a cosmic collapse but rather a giant cosmic bubble that devours everything in its path. According to a recent paper, published on ...

The question may seem unanswerable. Nevertheless, some cosmologists have a response: Our universe is a swelling bubble. Outside it, more bubble universes exist, all immersed in an eternally expand ...

The June 2025 issue of Scientific American is packed with exciting features, from magnificent mitochondria and a plan to ...

Astronomers recently discovered an enormous cosmic bubble packed with galaxies that stretches nearly 1 billion light-years across and seems to be an ancient vestige from the infant universe.

This is also when radiation ionized the neutral hydrogen that filled the universe, forming in bubbles around galaxies. This process marked the universe's transition from the "dark ages," when it ...

The Milky Way galaxy we live in, like other galaxies in the universe, has bubble-like structures formed mainly during the ...