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For instance, the light leftover from the big bang, called the cosmic microwave background, has some mysterious large-scale fluctuations that don’t look totally random, notes Dragan Huterer, a cosmologist at the University of Michigan.
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Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2025
This, Clark explained, was the cosmic microwave background – a snapshot, taken by the European Space Agency's now-defunct Planck telescope, of radiation left over from the Big Bang.
—Jessica Hullinger, theweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Yet another line of evidence comes from observations of the cosmic microwave background, the radiation left over from the very early universe, which can be studied with radio telescopes.
—Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
The problem is that these estimates for the Hubble constant don’t match what the standard model of cosmology predicts based on patterns in the cosmic microwave background, the glow left over from the early universe.
—Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
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Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2025
This, Clark explained, was the cosmic microwave background – a snapshot, taken by the European Space Agency's now-defunct Planck telescope, of radiation left over from the Big Bang.
—Jessica Hullinger, theweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Yet another line of evidence comes from observations of the cosmic microwave background, the radiation left over from the very early universe, which can be studied with radio telescopes.
—Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
The problem is that these estimates for the Hubble constant don’t match what the standard model of cosmology predicts based on patterns in the cosmic microwave background, the glow left over from the early universe.
—Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
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