The early universe experienced a phase of rapid expansion, known as inflation. For decades, cosmologists assumed that this expansion was powered by a new entity in the universe, known as the inflaton.

A team of scientists has used X-ray and gamma-ray observations of some of the most distant objects in the Universe to better understand the nature of space and time. Their results set limits on the ...

Hyderabad: A study by researchers from BITS Pilani, published in the International Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, has proposed a new explanation for one of modern science’s biggest mysteries — ...

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