Sentences with phrase «cosmic background light»

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It also confirms more than any other evidence that the universe had a beginning and expanded at a rate faster than the speed of light within less than a trillion of a trillion of a trillion of a second — less than 10 ^ -35 of a second — of the Big Bang by detecting the miniscule «light polarizations» called B - Modes caused by the Gravitational Waves — which were theorized in 1916 by Albert Einstein in his Theory of General Relativity but never detected before — of the Inflation of the Big Bang which are embedded in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation — CMB or CMBR that was discovered by American scientists back in 1964.

How about cosmic microwave background radiation, time dilation in supernovae light curves, the Hubble deep field, the Sunyaev - Zel «dovich effect, the Integrated Sachs - Wolfe effect, the hom.ogeneity of stars and galaxies, etc, etc...

-- you can't have the earth and the waters before light if you construe «let there be light» as the big bang / cosmic background radiation — you can't have day and night before the sun — the earth doesn't form before the sun — you can't have plants before the sun — the birds come after the land animals, not before

The results are consistent with those from the cosmic microwave background — light emitted billions of years earlier.

After 380,000 years, those blips were imprinted as hot and cold spots in the cosmic microwave background, the oldest light in the universe.

And measurements of cosmological parameters — the fraction of dark energy and matter, for example — are generally consistent, whether they are made using the light from galaxies or the cosmic microwave background.

This year's Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to the team behind NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP, a space telescope that launched in 2001 to map the cosmic microwave background — the earliest, oldest light we can detect from the universe's infancy.

Though not detectable directly, these inflation - era gravity waves should be encoded in the universe's earliest light, the cosmic microwave background.

In the case of the cosmic microwave background, light scattered off particles called electrons to become slightly polarized.

That ancient, relic light washes over us even now, diminished by the intervening eons to a faint all - sky microwave glow: the cosmic microwave background (CMB).

So said Dragan Huterer of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the night before the European Space Agency released the highest - resolution map yet of the entire cosmic microwave background (CMB), relic light from the primordial universe.

Researchers with the BICEP2 project reported swirling patterns in the alignment of electromagnetic waves in the cosmic microwave background, or CMB, the primordial light released into the universe about 380,000 years after the Big Bang -LRB-

The telescope looked for swirls in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the earliest light emitted in the universe, roughly 380,000 years after the big bang.

Today this light, called the cosmic microwave background, or CMB, fills the sky with an almost uniform glow — almost, because some pockets of the sky are a few millionths of a degree warmer or colder than average.

The size of the acoustic scale at 13.7996 billion years ago has been exquisitely determined from observations of the cosmic microwave background from the light emitted when the pressure waves became frozen.

Observations of type 1a supernovas imply a faster expansion rate (known as the Hubble constant) than studies of the cosmic microwave background — light that originated early in cosmic history (SN: 8/6/2016, p. 10).

These collisions could have left dents in the cosmic microwave background, the universe's first light, which the European Space Agency's Planck satellite is mapping with exquisite precision.

In its importance for our understanding of — well, everything — measuring such a signal would be even more revolutionary than mapping the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the relic light from when the early universe first cooled to transparency some 380,000 years after the big bang.

Dark Matter is thought to exist because of its gravitational effects on stars and galaxies, gravitational lensing (the bending of light rays) around these, and through its imprint on the Cosmic Microwave Background (the afterglow of the Big Bang).

Since the cosmic microwave background is a form of light, it exhibits all the properties of light, including polarization.

The oldest light we see around us today, called the cosmic microwave background, harkens back to a time just hundreds of millions of years after the universe was created.

The Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, or CMB for short, is a faint glow of light that fills the universe, falling on Earth from every direction with nearly uniform intensity.

Thus, at a distance of 700 million light - years — not very far on a cosmic scale — it is barely observable through the background glow of stars in our own galaxy.

These cosmic lenses are massive objects that can bend the path of light passing by them, making sources of light in the background look distorted from the point of view of telescopes on Earth.

Their prime target is the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the oldest light scientists can see, which dates back to when the universe was just 380,000 years old.

Since astronomers don't know much about how strongly galactic dust polarizes light, researchers involved in the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, or BICEP, experiment relied on whatever information they could get their hands on.

The researchers had seen twirling patterns in the alignment, or polarization, of the first light released into space just 380,000 years after the Big Bang, what's known as the cosmic microwave background.

Abell S1063 is not alone in its ability to bend light from background galaxies, nor is it the only one of these huge cosmic lenses to be studied using Hubble.

That light, the so - called cosmic microwave background (CMB), serves as a familiar hunting ground for astronomers who seek to understand the universe in its infancy.

But studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)-- the first light to be released, some 300,000 years after the big bang — show that the universe still looks virtually the same in all directions.

The telescope has helped researchers detect such clusters by exploiting a phenomenon known as the Sunyaev - Zel «dovich effect, which causes massive galaxy clusters to leave an impression on the cosmic microwave background: a faint, universe - spanning glow of light left over from the big bang.

A curved signature in the cosmic microwave background light provides proof of inflation and spacetime ripples

This observation of the cluster, 5 billion light - years from Earth, helped the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to study the cosmic microwave background using the thermal Sunyaev - Zel «dovich effect.

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) consists of residual light from the Big Bang that permeates all space.

These waves were revealed as telltale twists and turns in the polarisation of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), the remnants of the universe's earliest light.

As it was created nearly 14 billion years ago, this light — which exists now as weak microwave radiation and is thus named the cosmic microwave background (CMB)-- permeates the entire cosmos, filling it with detectable photons.

Distinctive patterns of light polarisation in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation were in fact two for the price of one.

Instead of hunting the graviton directly, they say, look to maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the first light that travelled across the universe after the big bang (see photo).

Recent experiments including BOSS and the Planck satellite study of the cosmic microwave background put the BAO scale, as measured in today's universe, at very close to 450 million light years — a «standard ruler» for measuring expansion.

NASA's groundbreaking cosmology satellite, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, has in the decade since its launch delivered a robust indirect detection of dark matter's footprint on the ancient echo of light known as the cosmic microwave background.

Measurements based on the cosmic microwave background, the earliest light in the universe, suggest one rate of expansion, while measurements of nearby supernovas suggest a faster one.

In addition to measuring the temperature of the cosmic microwave background, Planck can determine its polarization, the direction in which the waves of light vibrate as they move through space.

That's the conclusion of a four - year mission conducted by the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft, which has created the highest - resolution map yet of the entire cosmic microwave background (CMB)-- the first light to travel across a newly transparent universe about 380,000 years after the big bang.

Starting with data taken from observations of the cosmic background radiation — a flash of light that occurred 380,000 years after the big bang that presents the earliest view of cosmic structure — the researchers applied the basic laws that govern the interaction of matter and allowed their model of the early universe to evolve.

That could be detected by looking for a particular pattern of polarized light in the cosmic microwave background, known as B - mode polarization.

``... primordial black holes could also explain the uneven distribution of infrared light in the cosmic background.»

The ancient light, called the cosmic microwave background, was imprinted on the sky when the universe was 370,000 years old.

Light basically didn't exist, and the hydrogen gas that made up the majority of the interstellar medium was virtually indistinguishable from the cosmic background radiation, left over from the Big Bang.

Researchers also relied on precise, space - based measurements of the cosmic microwave background, or CMB, which is the nearly uniform remnant signal from the first light of the universe.

In this illustration, the trajectory of cosmic microwave background (CMB) light is bent by structures known as filaments that are invisible to our eyes, creating an effect known as weak lensing captured by the Planck satellite (left), a space observatory.