Cosmology — Library Silo

Cosmology is the study of the universe as a whole: its origin, content, geometry, history and ultimate fate. The modern framework is the ΛCDM model, in which roughly 68% of the energy density is dark energy, 27% is dark matter, and 5% is ordinary baryonic matter.

Foundational observations include the Hubble–Lemaître expansion law, the cosmic microwave background (~2.725 K blackbody), Big Bang nucleosynthesis abundance predictions for the light elements, and the late-time accelerated expansion measured from Type Ia supernovae. The current Hubble tension — a ~5% disagreement between early- and late-universe measurements of H0 — is one of the field's active open problems.

Recent research on this topic from arXiv

Preprints and papers indexed on arXiv.org. Links open the public abstract pages.

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