BICEP2
Primordial Gravitational Waves Continue to Elude Astronomers
New observations put further constraints on primordial gravitational waves, but still haven't found them yet.
Astronomy Cast Bonus Episode: Dust with Dr. Paul Sutter
Download MP3 Recorded during the Astrotour to Costa Rica, Fraser talks to Dr. Paul Matt Sutter about the nature of…
What Was Cosmic Inflation? The Quest to Understand the Earliest Universe
The Big Bang was a tremendous theory, but it had a few problems. In 1980 Alan Guth developed the revolutionary…
How We’ve ‘Morphed’ From “Starry Night” to Planck’s View of the BICEP2 Field
From the vantage point of a window in an insane asylum, Vincent van Gogh painted one of the most noted…
It Turns Out Primordial Gravitational Waves Weren’t Found
Last March, international researchers from the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP2) telescope at the South Pole claimed that…
What Came Before the Big Bang?
Astronomers are pretty sure what happened after the Big Bang, but what came before? What are the leading theories for…
Higgs Boson Threatened The Early Universe, But Gravity Saved The Day
All the physical properties of our Universe - indeed, the fact that we even exist within a Universe that we can…
New Results from Planck: It Doesn’t Look Good For BICEP2
One of the recent sagas in cosmology began with the BICEP2 press conference announcing evidence of early cosmic inflation. There…
Has the Cosmology Standard Model become a Rube Goldberg Device?
This week at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in the UK, physicists are challenging the evidence for the…
Are the BICEP2 Results Invalid? Probably Not.
Recently rumors have been flying that the BICEP2 results regarding the cosmic inflationary period may be invalid. It all started with…