was coming to a climax – the Great Debate (1917 to 1922) – with early cosmologists such as Heber Curtis and Ernst Öpik determining that some nebulae seen...

researchers still advocate a handful of alternative cosmologies; however, most cosmologists agree that the Big Bang theory best explains the observations. Dramatic...

studied many aspects of cosmology and supervised many other leading cosmologists Irving Segal (1918–1998) created chronometric cosmology with alternative...

universe, rather than for the entire universe to come about in the manner cosmologists think it actually did. Physicists use the Boltzmann brain thought experiment...

Tom Abel (born 1970) is a German cosmologist who first simulated the collapse of a metal-free massive star that belongs to the first generation of stars...

notion of a class. AnalizeThis is a parameter estimation package used by cosmologists. It comes with the CMBEASY package. The code is written in C++ and uses...

Biblical cosmology is the account of the universe and its laws in the Bible. The Bible was formed over many centuries, involving many authors, and reflects...

of the mass–energy in the universe. There is a strong consensus among cosmologists that the shape of the universe is considered "flat" (parallel lines stay...

Clockwise from top left: Aquinas, theologian; Bruno, cosmologist; Beccaria, criminologist; and Montessori, of Montessori education...

of the Big Bang. In 1964 the CMB was discovered, which convinced many cosmologists that the competing steady-state model of cosmic evolution was falsified...