Blog Post Image: Ultracold Big Bang experiment successfully simulates evolution of early universe

Scientists created this detailed, all-sky picture of the infant universe from nine years of data from the orbiting Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. The image reveals 13.77 billion-year-old temperature fluctuations—shown as color differences—that correspond to the seeds that grew to become the galaxies. Physicists now are using clouds of ultracold atoms in a vacuum chamber to simulate the growth of structure in the early universe. Illustration by NASA/WMAP Science Team

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