The search for the universe’s center starts with a simple intuition: if everything exploded outward in the Big Bang, there must be a point it all came from. Modern cosmology turns that intuition ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed a contradiction in Albert Einstein’s theory of general ...
Where is the center of the universe? In 1929, Edwin Hubble concluded that there isn't one, as space continues to expand. Gravity can create a "center," but because gravity pulls equally on all objects ...
For thousands of years we assumed the Earth was the center of the universe. When Galileo advanced the proposition that the Earth revolved around the sun and was, in fact, only one of many planets that ...
(THE CONVERSATION) About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed a contradiction in Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Published in 1915, and already widely ...