Stephen Hawking's final theory sheds light on the multiverse

Shortly before he died the eminent physicist completed his final theory of the cosmos, and it's simpler than we thought

Reality may be made up of multiple universes, but each one may not be so different to our own, according to Stephen Hawking's final theory of the cosmos.

The work, completed only weeks before the physicist's death in March, paints a simpler picture of the past 13.8 billion years than many previous theories have proposed.