E129 10-17-19 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Research on Exoplanets and the Structure of the Universe

Published: Oct. 17, 2019, 10 a.m.

When astronomers stumbled upon a cosmic radiation that suffuses throughout space, fifty years ago, it provided a road map of the history of the universe since the \u201cBig Bang\u201d. In short, in one-millionth of a second, \u201clumps\u201d of matter were created which would evolve into galaxies.