cosmic microwave background
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What Is Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation?
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB for short), is light: the oldest and most distant light that we can see in the entire universe. It comes from soon after the Big Bang – which is considered to be the beginning of the universe. However, it isn’t made up of light that you or I are able…
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The Quest To Hear Echoes From The Big Bang Enters Its Next Phase
Back in 2014, physicists on a collaboration known as BICEP2 thought they had detected gravitational waves. Those claims quickly evaporated when it became clear that they had really seen patterns from cosmic dust. But they haven’t given up the hunt. An upgraded version of the experiment, BICEP3, began taking new data at the South Pole…