If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...

New insights from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer unprecedented images of the universe at 380,000 years old, revealing ...

"Our data indicates that the Universe will expand forever, and at an accelerating rate," said Sehgal, who analyzed data ...

The new pictures of this background radiation, known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB), add higher definition to those observed more than a decade ago by the Planck space-based telescope. “ACT ...

That is a defining factor distinguishing ACT from Planck and other, earlier telescopes.” The new pictures of this background radiation, known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB), add higher ...

where w is the angular frequency of radiation.. Albert Einstein, in 1905, presented the revolutionary idea of light quanta of energy which equals ħw, where ħ is reduced Planck's constant.

It is important for star formation, which occurs in giant gas clouds shielded by their dust from the surrounding radiation ... Both authors work at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.

ACT succeeded in its mission to map this radiation, both its temperature and ... such as the European Space Agency’s Planck and NASA’s WMAP. The main advantage is the ability to constantly ...

While reflection happens when radiation – for example ... In 1900, a German physicist, Max Planck solved the puzzle by proposing that energy is not radiated continuously, but comes in discrete ...

The image shows the cosmic microwave background radiation visible 380,000 years after the Big Bang. ACT Collaboration; ESA/Planck Collaboration "Before, we got to see where things were ...

The research was led by Zhang Xiangyu, a Chinese doctoral student at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Astronomy ... The ...