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 Latest Space Breaking News: Latest findings from the South Pole Telescope bolster standard cosmological model
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-latest-south-pole-telescope-bolster.html
Summary: Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial cosmological soup. Over the next 14 billion years, these ancient photons—the universe's first light—continued traveling. This relic light is known as the Cosmic Microwave Background.