The Unknown Universe: New Scientist: The Collection

The Unknown Universe: New Scientist: The Collection

Look up into the night sky; if you’re lucky you might be able to see the milky way, one of the spiral arms of our galaxy. Every one of the stars in it is beyond the reach of humans, and yet this is only a tiny corner of the cosmos. The Universe is big – mind-bogglingly big. And though we have discovered a lot about it, there is a vast amount that we still don’t know. <br /><br />This issue of New Scientist: The Collection is dedicated to those mysteries of the cosmos. Where did the universe come from? What is it made of? Why do space and matter behave lie they do? What is time? Do dark matter and dark energy really exist? What are black holes? And is our Universe actually just one of many in an enormous, possibly infinite, multiverse?