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Pen, N. Turok, Polarization of the Microwave Background in Defect Models, Physical Review Letters 79, 1997, 1615, astro - ph / 9704231

We could have seen effects, as George mentioned, of cosmic strings or cosmic defects and other physical effects that would have disturbed the microwave background in complex ways, but we don't see those either.

PRIMORDIAL SWIRL The patterns and colors in this visualization represent the polarization and temperature of the cosmic microwave background in a small patch of space, emitted when the universe was about 380,000 years old.

And with the discovery of the cosmic microwave background in the 1960s, the big bang theory of the universe's birth assumed the starring role on the cosmological stage — providing cosmologists with one big answer and many new questions.

By looking at the microwave background in polarised light, observatories like the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica and the upcoming Simons Observatory in Chile might affect this.

Finkbeiner speculates the source may be electrons given off by dark matter in our galaxy or extraneous emission that accompanied the release of the microwave background in the primordial universe.

Not exact matches

It was theory decades ago, but has since been proven, in part by the existence of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), but also by astronomical observations and by particle accelerator experiments.

Astronomers have found places in the cosmic microwave background radiation where it appears a collision occurred.

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.

The cosmic microwave background varies by one part in 100,000.

The big bang and the current iteration of the Universe having a «beginning» has been generally accepted since Penzias and Wilson stumbled upon the uniform background microwave radiation in 1964.

The value of the original energy field is unknown, but if the field had just the right strength, and the orresponding distortion in the cosmic microwave background appears, it would suggest that the Big Bounce and space - time quantum loops are real.

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...

The universe is expanding in all directions)-- 1965: discovery of microwave cosmic background radiation (the echo's of the big bang)-- 1998, two independent research groups studying distant supernovae were astonished to discover, against all expectations, that the current expansion of the universe is accelerating (Reiss 1998, Perlmutter 1999).

Because it can be proven mathematically and also because the background microwave radiation can be found in all directions of the sky.

A team of astrophysicists had used the BICEP2 South Pole telescope to identify a pattern in the polarisation maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation (rather like an echo of the Big Bang).

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

Dark matter also plays a central role in structure formation and galaxy evolution, and has measurable effects on the anisotropy of 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'sMicrowave 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'smicrowave background — the earliest, oldest light we can detect from the universe's infancy.

The puzzle emerged after astronomers measured the cosmic microwave background — a bath of radiation, left over from the Big Bang — and found only slight variations in its temperature across the entire sky.

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

The first suggestion that the flow existed came in 2008, when a group led by Alexander Kashlinsky of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, scrutinised what was then the best map of the cosmic microwave background radiation, the big bang's afterglow.

[6] Cosmic - infrared background radiation, similar to the more famous cosmic microwave background, is a faint glow in the infrared part of the spectrum that appears to come from all directions in space.

COBE's discovery of tiny variations in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background and the subsequent confirmation by WMAP that these are in excellent agreement with the predictions of inflation.

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

Telltale signs of this early chapter in our universe's history are imprinted in the skies, in a relic glow called the cosmic microwave background.

Known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB), it's visible everywhere in the sky as microwaves.

This static is known as the cosmic microwave background radiation, and its discovery in the 1960s proved the big bang theory.

While conventional quantum theory predicts that random quantum fluctuations in the early universe have left celestial imprints, pilot wave theory predicts fluctuations that are less random, leaving slightly different wrinkles in the cosmic microwave background radiation.

The initial fireball expands and cools, with the ripples of the membrane leading to the small temperature fluctuations in microwave background radiation observed in our universe.

Researchers used supernovas, cosmic microwave background radiation and patterns of galaxy clusters to measure the Hubble constant — the rate at which the universe expands — but their results were mismatched, Emily Conover reported in «Debate persists on cosmic expansion» (SN: 8/6/16, p. 10).

Inflation theory, first proposed in the early 1980s, predicts that a pattern of tiny temperature differences should exist in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the afterglow of the big bang.

Other bubble universes might be detected in the subtle temperature variations of the cosmic microwave background radiation left over from the big bang of our own 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.

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).

The European Space Agency's Planck mission is busy surveying the cosmic microwave background, aka the «echo» of the big bang, and in 2013 will release a feast of data that promises to deliver profound new insights into the origin of the universe.

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.

Observational evidence to confirm the idea that the universe had a very dense beginning came in October 1965, with the discovery of a faint background of microwaves throughout space.

These variations caused minute differences in the temperature of the early universe, which we can see in the cosmic microwave background.

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.

Another result that we don't really understand is that we don't see any temperature fluctuations in the microwave background on scales larger than 60 degrees [the angular size in the sky of the fluctuations].

Scientists already know that MOND can not explain other phenomena that dark matter can, such as the patterns seen in the cosmic microwave background or the clustering of galaxies.

The rate of expansion soon after the big bang might also be a little off if we aren't correctly measuring the sizes of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background.

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The spacecraft — recently renamed the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe in honor of astrophysicist David Wilkinson — is sifting for clues in the cosmic microwave background, a remnant glow of microwaves from the early Microwave Anisotropy Probe in honor of astrophysicist David Wilkinson — is sifting for clues in the cosmic microwave background, a remnant glow of microwaves from the early microwave background, a remnant glow of microwaves from the early universe.

Small primordial ripples in the structure of spacetime, which can be seen in the cosmic microwave background, grew to colossal scale and led to the formation of stars, galaxies, and other structures.

One method looks at dimples in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a glow left behind by the hot, soupy universe just a few hundred thousand years after the big bang.

Once in space, the two will go their separate ways: Planck to study in detail the cosmic microwave background, and Herschel to spy on the cool gas and dust clouds that are the nurseries of stars and galaxies.

If the data from different parts of the sky agree with one another, Jones says, then they probably have a common origin in the cosmic microwave background.