... The cosmicmicrowavebackgroundradiation emanating from the universe could only have the above fuzzy pattern if it contained clear amounts of dark matter and dark energy . ...
... an expected signal of unexpected strength, bolstering a prediction of inflation that specific patterns of polarization should exist in cosmicmicrowavebackgroundradiation -- light emitted 13.8 billion years ago as the universe first became transparent ...
... The map shows minute temperature variations (red is hotter) imprinted on the CosmicMicrowaveBackground (CMB) radiation by structures in the early Universe . ...
... No one is sure, and many astronomers now think that the CMB Cold Spot on the cosmicmicrowavebackground (CMB) radiation is not particularly noteworthy. ...
... Observationally, increasingly accurate balloon experiments are pressing to beat future space-faring satellites to definitive measurements of universe-determining spot characteristics of the cosmicmicrowavebackground (CMB) radiation. ...
... The void's existence is being postulated following scientific curiosity about how unusually cold spots came to appear on WMAP's map of cosmicmicrowavebackground (CMB) radiation. ...
... galaxy's enormous arcing structures seen at microwave energies are hundreds or thousands of light-years away, while the mottled regions at the top and bottom represent the CosmicMicrowaveBackground (CMB) radiation, some 13.7 billion light-years distant ...