Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists turn to numerical relativity to explore the universe’s origins. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Asking what existed before the ...

On the eve of the recent major snowstorm, students, faculty, and staff gathered in the Nixon Lounge of Hawthorne-Longfellow Library to listen to Thomas W. Baumgarte, William R. Kenan Professor of ...

The mysteries surrounding the origins of the universe have long intrigued scientists and philosophers alike. New research, published in the Living Reviews in Relativity, introduces an innovative ...

Astrophysicist Katy Clough uses supercomputers to simulate conditions at the start of the universe and other strong gravity regimes, such as around black holes, testing the limits of general ...

Research teams on both sides of the Atlantic have shown that precise modeling of the universe and its contents will change the detailed understanding of the evolution of the universe and the growth of ...

Asking what existed before the Big Bang is often dismissed as meaningless, since traditional physics breaks down when pushed that far back in time. Yet a new paper published in Living Reviews in ...