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A new map offers clues about the beginning of the universe

Published: March 14, 2024, 4:11 p.m.

Last month, scientists created a new, more detailed map of that low background rumble of radiation in our universe. The U.S. National Science Foundation's Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor\u2014or CLASS\u2014a collaboration led by Johns Hopkins University astrophysicists, created the maps.\xa0

Joseph Eimer is a senior scientist on the CLASS project and the lead author of the study published in The Astrophysical Journal.

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