This is a list of people who have made noteworthy contributions to cosmology (the study of the history and large-scale structure of the universe) and their cosmological achievements
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model. A few researchers still advocate a handful of alternative cosmologies; however, most cosmologists agree that the Big Bang theory best explains the...
debate about the structure of the cosmos was coming to a climax – the Great Debate (1917 to 1922) – with early cosmologists such as Heber Curtis and Ernst...
The heat death of the universe (also known as the Big Chill or Big Freeze) is a hypothesis on the ultimate fate of the universe, which suggests the universe...
observations of an early state of the universe, which indicate an age of 13.787±0.020 billion years as interpreted with the Lambda-CDM concordance model as of 2021;...
explanations of dark energy have generally not gained much traction among cosmologists. For example, a paper that suggested the anisotropy of the local Universe...
million light-years. This led cosmologists to seek an explanation to the horizon problem, which questioned how distant regions of the universe could have identical...
polymath. He was born in the city of Pisa, then part of the Duchy of Florence. Galileo has been called the father of observational astronomy, modern-era...
disproven. What follows are a listof the mysterious aspects of the Big Bang concept still under intense investigation by cosmologists and astrophysicists. It...
hypothetical cosmological model concerning the ultimate fate of the universe, in which the matter of the universe, from stars and galaxies to atoms and subatomic...
global geometry. Cosmologists often work with a given space-like slice of spacetime called the comoving coordinates. The section of spacetime which can...
observations with the basic theory. Cosmologists continue to calculate many of the parameters of the Big Bang to a new level of precision, and carry out more...
larger set of universes lacking such properties go unnoticed. Steven Weinberg believes the anthropic principle may be appropriated by cosmologists committed...
pattern of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. According to consensus among cosmologists, dark matter is composed primarily of a not-yet-characterized...
mass–energy in the universe. There is a strong consensus among cosmologists that the shape of the universe is considered "flat" (parallel lines stay parallel)...
The most common suggestion of how such a decay might happen in our universe is called bubble nucleation – if a small region of the universe by chance reached...
referred to as the End of Greatness. The organization of structure arguably begins at the stellar level, though most cosmologists rarely address astrophysics...
existence of the other universes to be tested? To be sure, all cosmologists accept that there are some regions of the universe that lie beyond the reach of our...
of this measurement was understood. By the middle of the 20th century, cosmologists had developed two different theories to explain the creation of the...
general—and specifically for the parameters of our universe—we can only find a solution numerically. Cosmologists commonly use the following measures for...
life of Copernicus and the 16th-century world in which he lived. Copernican principle Copernicus Science Centre History of philosophy in Poland Listof multiple...
model of hyperbolic geometry. An example is the Picard horn, a negatively curved space, colloquially described as "funnel-shaped". When cosmologists speak...
dimensions of the early universe by a factor of at least 1026 (and possibly a much larger factor), and so increased its volume by a factor of at least 1078...
electromagnetic radiation that fills all space. The origin of this radiation depends on the region of the spectrum that is observed. One component is the cosmic...
large scale structure of matter using astronomical surveys. BAO measurements help cosmologists understand more about the nature of dark energy (which causes...
to Euclidean space, what cosmologists describe as geometrically flat, to within experimental error. Consequently, the rules of Euclidean geometry associated...