The search for the universe’s center starts with a simple intuition: if everything exploded outward in the Big Bang, there ...
“The cosmological principle is like an ultimate kind of statement of humility,” explains James Adam, astrophysicist at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, and lead author of ...
A study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) presents a methodology to test the assumption of cosmic homogeneity and isotropy, known as the Cosmological Principle, by ...
Puzzling anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation across the sky are leading some researchers to contemplate cosmology in an asymmetric universe. At the same time there are puzzling ...