Sentences with phrase «microwave background observations»

On the distant shore are the cosmic microwave background observations of the early universe.

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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.

The BICEP2 experiment used 512 detectors, which sped up observations of the cosmic microwave background by 10 times over the team's previous measurements.

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).

This «Cosmological Principle» is backed up by observations of the early universe and its microwave background signature, seen by the WMAP and Planck satellites.

The same problem plagues observations of the chilled - out photons of the cosmic microwave background left over from the big bang.

«Ongoing observations of cosmological microwave background and large scale structures have achieved impressive precision, from which valuable information about primordial density perturbations can be extracted,» said Yi Wang, a co-author of the paper and an assistant professor at HKUST's department of physics.

These groundbreaking results came from observations by the BICEP2 telescope of the cosmic microwave background — a faint glow left over from the Big Bang.

George lists a number of observations purportedly supporting multiverse theories that are dubious at best, like evidence that certain constants of nature aren't really constant, evidence in the cosmic microwave background radiation of collisions with other universes or strangely connected space, etc..

New observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation show that the early universe resounded with harmonious oscillations

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.

To conduct the new study, the Hawaiian team, led by astronomer Istvan Szapudi, combined two large - scale observations of the cosmos that already had been completed: the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which represents the last, dying embers of the big bang, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which comprises images of millions of galaxies.

The South Pole Telescope, which began scientific observations in 2007, surveys the sky for cosmic microwave background radiation, the «afterglow» of the Big Bang.

«Other than the cosmic microwave background radiation, this is the earliest observation of any kind in the universe.

These include observations of the microwave background radiation — the relic radiation of the early universe — and surveys of astronomical objects — galaxies, quasars, supernovae, gamma - ray bursters,... — over large fractions of the sky out to large fractions of the radius of the observable universe.

On the one hand, detailed observations of the cosmic microwave background have shown us a «baby picture» of the universe as it was only 300 000 years after the Big Bang.

For example the cosmic microwave background can be safely removed from the microwave observations of a single star of interest, since they are not coupled or correlated.