List of Cosmologists - B

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• Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (787–886) conveyed Aristotle's theories from Persia to Europe
• James M. Bardeen (1939–) studied the mathematics of black holes and of vacua under general relativity
• John D. Barrow (1952–) popularized the anthropic cosmological principle
• Charles L. Bennett (1956–) studied the large-scale structure of the universe by mapping irregularities in microwave background radiation
• Orfeu Bertolami (1959–) studied the cosmological constant, inflation, dark energy-dark matter unification and interaction, alternative gravity theories
• Somnath Bharadwaj studied large-scale structure formation
• James Binney (1950–) studied galactic dynamics and supernova disruption of galactic gasses
• Martin Bojowald (1973–) studied loop quantum gravity and established loop quantum cosmology
• Hermann Bondi (1919–2005) developed the steady-state model
• Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) promoted a geo-heliocentric system of epicycles