The polarization of light from the cosmic microwave background is key to understanding the young Universe. Sigurd Naess points out that ACT has five times higher resolution than Planck.

Moreover, cosmology tests of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) indicate no hint of any rotation on large scales, indicating that if the universe is rotating, it would be doing so at ...

The Cosmic Microwave Background carries with it a record of events throughout the 13.8-billion-year history of the universe. Just as Charles Darwin once used the fossil record to tell the story of ...

New research has unveiled images of the universe in its infancy—a mere 388,000 after the Big Bang. The snaps of the universe were produced by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration (ACT ...

"We have evidence of what we call 'the gravitational wave background,' which is a hum of gravitational waves coming from all of the gravitational waves in the universe," Dr. Sarah Vigeland ...

Host Regina Barber talks with two cosmologists about the cosmic microwave background, its implications for the universe's origins and the discovery that started it all. Interested in more space ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers are trying to listen to the universe’s background hum — a cascade of ...

The more massive stars die as the dramatic supernovae explosions and when they do, they send a burst of neutrinos across the universe. Astronomers now think it's likely there is a background of ...

A telescope in Chile has spent years working on by far the most precise map of the earliest visible universe. It now reveals a lot about the cosmos. An international research group has created the ...

These waves give rise to a continuous and pervasive "background hum" that reverberates across the entire universe. In 2015, the existence of gravitational waves was confirmed when observatories in ...

A never-before-seen image of the cosmic microwave background, combining data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the Planck satellite, offers a high-definition view of the early Universe.