The light of the Universe’s origins
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https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2015.775n5006Keywords:
Cosmic microwave background, early universe, Big Bang, fluctuations in the CMB, dark matter, dark energyAbstract
Penzias and Wilson discovered the cosmic microwave background, a luminous echo of the Big Bang, in 1965. The amount of information encoded in this relic of the early universe is truly extraordinary. At present, the most precise data about the origin and structure of the universe comes from the study of this primordial light, the full potential of which has yet to be explored.
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