A new study in published in Physical Review Letters analyzes the most complete set of galaxy clustering data to test the ΛCDM model, revealing discrepancies in the formation of cosmic structures ...
This model is from the ESA's Planck mission to study the cosmic microwave background. After the Big Bang, for the first 380,000 years or so, the universe was so hot and dense that it was ...
Spacetime itself released the photons in a titanic burst of radiation, the last traces of which we see as the cosmic microwave background: the fading glow of residual radiation left over from the ...
This course examines the history of our universe from the Big Bang, through the formation of the cosmic microwave background, to the universe we see today, with all its large scale structures. To be ...