Examples of distortion of images of distant galaxies by E and B modes. Credit: SISSA Medialab The Cosmological Principle, which postulates that the universe is homogeneous and isotropic, is at the ...

For a long time, scientists have believed that the universe looks the same no matter where you are or which direction you ...

This is critical because so-called isotropic fusion plasmas suggest a stable, thermal plasma that can be scaled to higher fusion energy gains, whereas anisotropic plasmas, those emitting irregular ...

If scientists confirm an anisotropic expansion, it would challenge the assumption that the universe has no preferred directions.

A further assumption, similar to but distinct and independent from homogeneity, is that the universe is also isotropic, meaning it has no preferred directions. These assumptions underlie the Standard ...

A new study proposes a way to use weak gravitational lensing data to test the long-held Cosmological Principle of the ...