A team of physicists have proposed a new cosmological model – dubbed the "black hole universe" – that suggests that our universe did not begin at the Big Bang.

For a long time the universe was assumed to be static, a potentially infinite pool of space that is neither expanding nor contracting. But during the 1920s, astronomer Edwin Hubble began measuring the red shift – the amount light is shifted to the red end of the spectrum – and noticed that it varied depending on how fast a distant object is receding from us, with more distant galaxies appearing to be receding from us faster.

After many, many careful observations of the red shift of galaxies appearing to show that the universe was expanding, physicists attempted to explain it by tracing the universe back in time, and matter was c

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