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Echoes Hint At Accelerating Universe Expansion

Posted by timothy on from the say-that-12-times-quickly dept.

cr0kin0le writes "400,000 years after the Big Bang, oscillations between gravitationally contracting matter and outward radiation pressure left newly discovered acoustic echoes. Independent teams from U. of Arizona and U. of Durham, England have found circular ripples with wavelengths of 500 million light-years which indirectly imply that universal expansion is accelerating due to dark energy."

2 of 41 comments (clear)

  1. The big question now... by MattHaffner · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... is how long before the RIAA muscles in and starts suing us astronomers for "collecting data".

    Sheesh.

  2. Re:MICHAEL by Rie+Beam · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oddly enough the above got labelled "Offtopic" and not "Troll". Perhaps there is some truth to this after all...