The Universe experienced a rapid expansion just after its birth, a phenomenon called cosmic inflation. This brief but intense ...

Leftover light from the young universe has a major flaw, and we don't know how to fix it. It's the cold spot. It's just way too big and way too cold. Astronomers aren't sure what it is, but they ...

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For more than two decades, the standard model of cosmology has stood as a reliable guide to the universe. Known as Lambda ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) In the Big Bang Theory, the cosmic microwave background — microwave-range radiation that floats through the entire universe at a steady 2.7 Kelvin — is evidence that a hot ...

Cosmic microwave background is the oldest light in the universe. Cosmic microwave background is the oldest light in the universe. It was set free when the universe was a mere 380,000 years old and ...

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The events surrounding the Big Bang were so cataclysmic that they left an indelible imprint on the fabric of the cosmos. We can detect these scars today by observing the oldest light in the universe.

Discrepancies exist between the Hubble constant values derived from cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation measurements (approximately 68 km/s/mpc) and those from supernova observations ...

The National Science Foundation has awarded $3.7 million to the University of Chicago for the first year of a grant that may provide up to $21.4 million for the final designs for a next-generation set ...