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However, the team argues in the paper that a constellation of several LISA-like detectors would be able to combine information from the cosmic microwave background and the SGWB to effectively isolate anisotropies.
—Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2023
That has the potential to provide a new view into the earliest history of the Universe, one that's completely independent of the cosmic microwave background.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024
That light — the cosmic microwave background, or CMB — reveals those early pressure waves, just as the surface of a frozen lake holds onto the overlapping crests of waves frozen in time, Poulin-Détolle said.
—Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
In the new study, astronomers analyzed how the cosmic microwave background — a relic of radiation initially produced by the infant universe — was distorted by dark matter some 12 billion years ago.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2022
The draft report also highlighted a need to invest in next-generation experiments probing the nature of subatomic particles called neutrinos; the cosmic microwave background, relic radiation from the Big Bang; and dark matter, the gravitational glue holding galaxies together.
—Katrina Miller, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
One way to calculate the constitution of the universe is by studying the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the phenomenon discovered in 1964 that transformed cosmology into a science.
—Richard Panek, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
In roughly the same span of time, observations of the big bang’s afterglow—the cosmic microwave background—have shown that even the ordinary atomic matter that forms planets and people alike constitutes no more than 5 percent of the cosmic mass and energy budget.
—Mario Livio, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2023
That's because of the cosmic microwave background radiation, the afterglow of the Big Bang that pervades the universe, discovered in 1964.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Nov. 2023
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First Known Use
1981, in the meaning defined above
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“Cosmic microwave background.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cosmic%20microwave%20background. Accessed 3 Jun. 2024.
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