May 18, 2001
Images of Light Provide Clues to the Universe
Pictures reveal what happened after the Big Bang
Like beaming parents, cosmologists last month showed off their best pictures yet of the infant universe, as it started to take shape 14 billion years ago. Captured by teams of researchers using two different telescopes in Antarctica, the images provide important clues to what happened in the first few moments after the Big Bang. They also add independent evidence for the existence of a mysterious dark energy that makes up most of the
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