The European Space Agency has published the most detailed map to date of the oldest light in the sky, which holds the secrets of the birth and death of our universe.
This long-awaited map of the “cosmic microwave background” – the afterglow of the Big Bang that formed the universe 13.8bn years ago – is based on observations by the €700m Planck space telescope launched in 2009.
The implications are that the newborn universe inflated a trillion trillion trillion times within the blink of an eye – and that today’s universe will go on growing for ever, ending up eventually as cold, dark, unimaginably vast nothingness.
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