At that time, the universe contained only energy and inflatons — a type of quantum matter that formed out of the energy field that filled all of space after the Big Bang. A new simulation shows the ...

There's a hole in the story of how our universe came to be. First, the universe inflated rapidly, like a balloon. Then, everything went boom. But how those two periods are connected has eluded ...

Dark matter and dark energy may have driven inflation, the exponential expansion of the Universe moments after the Big Bang. A new cosmological model proposed by physicists at the University of Warsaw ...