Science news articles about 'cosmic background radiation'

  • A molecular thermometer for the distant universe

    ... best ever precision the temperature of the cosmic background radiation in the remote Universe [3]. “Unlike ... background using the CO molecule involves very few assumptions,” declares co-author Pasquier ...
  • Hs and OHs in the spotlight

    ... In this process, individual colliding hydrogen atoms form hydrogen molecules under the influence of cosmic background radiation. Van der Loo was the first to completely describe ...
  • Ghost remains after black hole eruption

    ... produce X-rays by interacting with the pervasive sea of photons remaining from the Big Bang – the cosmic background radiation. Collisions between these electrons and the background photons can impart ...
  • How God propelled Stephen Hawking into the bestsellers list

    ... failure. Before 1965 – with the discovery of echoes of the big bang in the form of cosmic background radiation – they contained about as much scientific authority as the Book of Genesis, and made ...
  • First black holes kept to a strict diet, study shows

    ... at SLAC, is the most detailed to date. Starting with data taken from observations of the cosmic background radiation -- a flash of light that occurred 380,000 years after the big bang that presents ...

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