This is a classic article from New Å®ÉúСÊÓƵ’s archive, republished as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations
THE door to a new era in astronomy opened with last week’s announcement that a NASA satellite has found “ripples” in radiation from the big bang. The results provide the first hints of the birth of galaxies after the big bang, and support an esoteric theory that the universe expanded enormously just after the big bang.
Radiation from the big bang was first detected by accident in 1964, when two astronomers from Bell Laboratories in New Jersey were trying to measure faint radio…
