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- Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Power Spectrum as a Random Bit Generator http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02511 26 comments
- Harnessing the Chaos of the Cosmic Microwave Background for Better Encryption http://motherboard.vice.com/read/harnessing-the-chaos-of-the-cosmic-microwave-background-for-better-encryption 2 comments
- Secrets of the Cosmic Microwave Background https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri2LIEjXhmE 3 comments space
- Is there any discernible structure in the cosmic microwave background noise? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/8vk2cx/is_there_any_discernible_structure_in_the_cosmic/ 6 comments askscience
- Why do cosmic X-ray sources appear to be more isotropic than the microwave background radiation? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/79jvdu/why_do_cosmic_xray_sources_appear_to_be_more/ 4 comments askscience
- What is the total energy of the Cosmic Microwave Background? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/5jkioi/what_is_the_total_energy_of_the_cosmic_microwave/ 4 comments askscience
- Gravitational Waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/03/16/gravitational-waves-in-the-cosmic-microwave-background/ 9 comments science
- Possible evidence of other universes in the Cosmic Microwave Background http://www.technologyreview.com/view/421999/astronomers-find-first-evidence-of-other-universes/ 4 comments space
- Why isn't the cosmic microwave background radiation homogeneous? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background_radiation 16 comments askscience
- Lots of questions about the Cosmic Microwave Background http://www.starstryder.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/wmap_skymap.jpg 16 comments askscience
- Latest results from cosmic microwave background measurements https://phys.org/news/2021-10-latest-results-cosmic-microwave-background.html 4 comments space
- Are there any bodies in space with temperature below temperature of cosmic microwave background of ~2.7 K? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/55eex3/are_there_any_bodies_in_space_with_temperature/ 42 comments askscience
- Physicists Reproduced a Pattern Resembling the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation in a Simulation of the Big Bang http://scitechdaily.com/physicists-successfully-simulate-evolution-early-universe/ 10 comments science
- Why is the background of a map of the Cosmic Microwave Background always an ellipse? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Ilc_9yr_moll4096.png 10 comments askscience
- Ultracold big bang experiment successfully reproduces pattern resembling the cosmic microwave background http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130829092845.htm 7 comments space
- Circular patterns in cosmic microwave background could originate from collisions with other universes http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/12/epic-discovery-update-we-are-one-of-many-universes.html 5 comments science
- Physicists at the South Pole Telescope make first detection of "B-mode" patterns in the Cosmic Microwave Background http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5830 4 comments science
- According to a new analysis, the famous cold spot in the cosmic microwave background is an artifact of the statistical methods used to find it. http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24120/ 15 comments science
- AskScience AMA Series: We are Cosmologists, Experts on the Cosmic Microwave Background, Gravitational Lensing, the Structure of the Universe and much more! Ask Us Anything! https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/imdw7e/askscience_ama_series_we_are_cosmologists_experts/ 571 comments askscience
- How does the CMB (cosmic microwave background) map out the entire universe if the universe is 89.9 billion light years wide? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/75cjg7/how_does_the_cmb_cosmic_microwave_background_map/ 7 comments askscience
- Physicists have reproduced a pattern resembling the cosmic microwave background radiation in a laboratory simulation of the Big Bang, using ultracold cesium atoms in a vacuum chamber http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/08/28/ultracold-big-bang-experiment-successfully-simulates-evolution-early-universe 18 comments science
- 200,000 Elliptical Galaxies Point the Same Way - the signal for this alignment stands out at 13 standard deviations. This axis is the same as the controversial alignment found in the cosmic microwave background by the WMAP spacecraft. http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.4013 14 comments science
- Hawking Points in the Cosmic Microwave Background - a challenge to the concept of Inflation | Mathematical Institute https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/36137 12 comments science
- A recent analysis of the cosmic microwave background by Johns Hopkins cosmologist Joseph Silk and others suggests that the universe could be sphere-shaped https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/02/26/closed-universe-curve-999-em1-art1-nr-science/ 4 comments science
- ESA's Planck reveals an almost perfect Universe - the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background released today http://www.esa.int/our_activities/space_science/planck/planck_reveals_an_almost_perfect_universe 8 comments europe
- Gravity Waves from Big Bang Detected: a curved signature in the cosmic microwave background light provides proof of inflation and spacetime ripples http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gravity-waves-cmb-b-mode-polarization/ 5 comments science
- In 1972, a young astronomer predicted that moving clusters of galaxies would leave a subtle imprint on the cosmic microwave background radiation - but he had no way to check his prediction. Forty years later, another young astronomer has proved him right http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/13373/amazing-discovery-moving-clusters-galaxies-leaving-subtle-imprint-cosmic-microwave-background-radi 10 comments science
- Scientists mapped distribution of dark matter around galaxies 12 billion years ago–further back in time than ever before. Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background has been used to probe the distribution of dark matter around some of the earliest galaxies in the Universe. https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/117 7 comments science
- Scientists mapped distribution of dark matter around galaxies 12 billion years ago–further back in time than ever before. Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background has been used to probe the distribution of dark matter around some of the earliest galaxies in the Universe. https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/117 20 comments science
- Theoretical physicists and astrophysicists, investigating irregularities in the cosmic microwave background have found there is substantial evidence supporting a holographic explanation of the universe -- as much as there is for the traditional explanation of cosmic inflation. http://www.alphagalileo.org/viewitem.aspx?itemid=172044&culturecode=en 14 comments science
- The first stars in the universe had formed much later than what early observations of the cosmic microwave background led scientists to believe, the European Space Agency has said | A new analysis was carried out using the agency's Planck satellite. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/176212/20160903/first-stars-formed-hundreds-of-millions-of-years-later-than-previously-thought-esa.htm 35 comments worldnews
- If an object accelerated fast enough, would it eventually start colliding with the Cosmic Microwave Background (pair production), effectively making the maximum speed limit lower than the speed of light? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4xw4ne/if_an_object_accelerated_fast_enough_would_it/ 6 comments askscience
- The cosmic microwave background radiation is radiation that has been stretched out into the microwave band (It went from high frequency to low). Does that mean it has lost energy just by traveling through expanding space? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4x7x3b/the_cosmic_microwave_background_radiation_is/ 59 comments askscience
- Cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton says our universe is one of many – and she argues that we have already seen signs of those other universes in the cosmic microwave background, the light left over from the big bang https://www.newscientist.com/article/0-the-cosmologist-who-claims-to-have-evidence-for-the-multiverse/ 91 comments science
- Planets and colliding rocket ships! Check out the Cosmic Microwave Background :) Bagua with Paul Cavel (Senior Instructor of Dr Bruce Frantzis). http://www.youtube.com/watch?amp%3Bcontext=C4ea0ec4ADvjVQa1PpcFPT9cgj9C8qw22O3rCXNdqyMy8vY4PJC7Y%3D&v=_NDNQaHQOhQ 3 comments space
- Features found in the CMB define the 'essential character of the cosmos'. ("Non-standard morphological relic patterns in the cosmic microwave background" J. Zuntz et al) http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.6262 10 comments science
- Fun fact: the temperature in the Boomerang Nebula is only 1 K, and even lower than the glow caused by the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (around 3 K.) It's the coldest known place in the universe. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0712/boomerang_hst_big.jpg 5 comments space
- A survey of more than 7000 galaxies has concluded that a mysterious cold spot in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is not caused by a giant void in space, potentially opening the door for more exotic explanations http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2017/apr/26/competing-claims-over-cause-of-cosmic-cold-spot 13 comments science
- Dark Matter Alternative Passes Big Test. A cosmological model that doesn’t require dark matter has overcome a major hurdle in matching observations from the cosmic microwave (CMB), the leftover glow of the big bang. This dark-matter-free model is an extension of the so-called MOND background. https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/143 194 comments space
- Dark Matter Alternative Passes Big Test. A cosmological model that doesn’t require dark matter has overcome a major hurdle in matching observations from the cosmic microwave (CMB), the leftover glow of the big bang. This dark-matter-free model is an extension of the so-called MOND background. https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/143 36 comments science
