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AskScience AMA Series: We are Cosmologists, Experts on the Cosmic Microwave Background, Gravitational Lensing, the Structure of the Universe and much more! Ask Us Anything!

We are a bunch of cosmologists from the Cosmology from Home 2020 conference. Ask us anything, from our daily research to the organization of a large conference during COVID19! We have some special experts on

+ Inflation: The mind-bogglingly fast expansion of the Universe in a fraction of the first second. It turned tiny quantum fluctuation into the seeds for the galaxies and clusters we see today

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A New Study Claims to Disprove Dark Energy – but Cosmologists Aren’t Convinced

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It would be really, really exciting if a single observation could completely overturn astrophysicists’ current understanding of the universe. But that hasn’t happened yet, at least with regards to dark energy.

This week, a press releaseproclaimed that “new evidence shows that the key assumption made in the discovery of dark energy is in error,” garnering some attention from…

Does Dark Energy Really Exist? Cosmologists Battle It Out

A study challenged the evidence for this mysterious force, despite its wide acceptance as part of the cosmos. Then physicists shot back. Science Latest

Cosmologists Clash Over the Beginning of the Universe

What happened before the Big Bang? And what happened before that? Stephen Hawking’s answer—there was no beginning—is now the subject of intense debate. Science Latest

Cosmologists create largest simulation of galaxy formation, break their own record

[ad_1] Cosmology researchers are releasing initial findings from IllustrisTNG, their follow-up to the 2015 record-breaking Illustris simulation — the largest-ever hydrological simulation of galaxy formation. [ad_2] Source link