Blowing Up the Universe: BICEP3 Tightens the Bounds on Cosmic Inflation - NewsBreak

A new analysis of the South Pole-based telescope's cosmic microwave background observations has all but ruled out several popular models of inflation. Physicists looking for signs of primordial gravitational waves by sifting through the earliest light in the cosmos – the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – have reported their findings: still...