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Antarctica Telescope Finds Direct Evidence for Cosmic Inflation

BICEP2-Telescope.jpgsmall1 On March 17, 2014, a consortium led by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced the detection of twisted “B-mode”polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background. This extraordinary discovery is the first direct confirmation of inflation theory, which describes how the universe expanded exponentially in the first tiny moments after the big bang.

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