microwave background
Britishnoun
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Arno Penzias at Bell Labs won the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering “cosmic microwave background radiation” from the Big Bang.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
They’ve measured the cosmic microwave background, or leftover radiation from the Big Bang, with extremely high precision to help paint a picture of the first nanoseconds of the universe.
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025
In recent years, the foundation has funded a new observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert to observe microwave background radiation from the big bang, and created the Flatiron Institute, which applies computational methods to scientific research.
From Science Magazine • May 15, 2024
"Studying these waves from the early universe will help us build a complete picture of our cosmic history, analogous to previous discoveries of the cosmic microwave background."
From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2024
This is consistent with the observations of the microwave background radiation, which show that it has almost exactly the same intensity in any direction.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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