In 2009, the Planck spacecraft began its observations of the cosmos, and the program continued until 2013. Planck was designed to look for anisotropy, or non-uniformity, in the cosmic microwave ...

5 Composition of the cosmos Estimates of the matter-density parameter Ω m and the dark-energy parameter Ω Λ from Planck. Combining data sets such as these with results from other missions allows ...

Planck mission scientists are still extracting information from the cosmic microwave background so that physicists can offer a more complete and satisfying explanation of how the universe we see ...

Planck also reveals that the universe is some 80 million years older than thought, to put the age of the universe at 13.8 billion years old. Planck scientists also say there is no evidence from the ...

Scientists already know, both from Planck and earlier observations, that the CMB shows tiny density fluctuations, which then became huge over the next 13.7 billion years, as the universe expanded.

Yet if the density of the universe is more than the critical density, then that means it has enough mass to stop expanding, which is what the latest study using Planck data is suggesting.

The microwave background shows us the embryonic density fluctuations as miniscule variations in temperature, first predicted 40 years ago by Rashid Sunyaev, now Director at the Max Planck ...

A charge-density-wave topological semimetal Date: January 11, 2021 Source: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Summary: A novel material has been discovered that is characterised by the coupling of a charge ...