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Renowned astrophysicist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar questioned the Big Bang theory, believing the universe evolved slowly over ...

A new theory challenges the Big Bang, suggesting the universe began with ultra-fast bursts, known as temporal singularities, ...

While attempting to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, physicists at Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ...

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Jayant Narlikar, astrophysicist and institution builder, passed away at 86. Known for challenging the Big Bang theory and ...

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On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...