Various large-scale astrophysical research projects are set to take place over the next decade, several of which are so-called cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. These are large-scale ...

One of the Holy Grails in cosmology is a look back at the earliest epochs of cosmic history. Unfortunately, the universe's first few hundred thousand years are shrouded in an impenetrable fog. So far, ...

With CMB-S4, scientists hope to connect a sandy desert with a polar desert—and revolutionize our understanding of the early universe. In the 1960s, an anomalous, faint electromagnetic glow was ...

Three decades of supernova observations have been rebuilt into one dataset, revealing another challenge to constant dark ...

The largest collaborative undertaking yet to explore the relic light emitted by the infant universe has taken a step forward with the selection of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to lead the U.S ...

Nearly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the primordial plasma of the infant universe cooled enough for the first atoms to coalesce, making space for the embedded radiation to soar free. That ...

George Smoot, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for his studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), died on 18 September at the age of 80. Smoot’s work on the blackbody form and ...

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) provides a snapshot of the Universe 380,000 years after the Big Bang, revealing minute temperature fluctuations—anisotropies—that trace the primordial density ...

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The cosmic microwave background (CMB) carries an imprint of the early Universe in its temperature and polarisation patterns. Standard cosmological models predict that Thomson scattering at ...

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