Our universe isn’t special. Around about 13.7 billion years ago, the Big Bang kicked-off life as we know it. But the universe it created isn’t the first — and won’t be the last, according to 2020 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — In trying to understand the nature of the cosmos, some theorists propose that the universe expands and contracts in endless cycles. Because this behavior is hypothesized to be ...

Roger Penrose has shared in the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution with models of Black Holes. Penrose has used the renewed attention to push his 30-year old concept of Hawking Points and ...

In Conformal Cyclic Cosmology the universe iterates through infinite cycles, with the future timelike infinity of each previous iteration being identified with the Big Bang singularity of the next.

Scientists have claimed that evidence for past universes may exist in the night sky – namely the remnants of black holes from another universe. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please ...

A new study by physicists highlights one way that cyclic or 'bouncing' cosmologies fall flat. 'People proposed bouncing universes to make the universe infinite into the past, but what we show is that ...