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Published online 17 March 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060313-16
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Space probe backs up dark view of the Universe
Physicists get their hands on the second round of WMAP data.
Researchers have released the first data in three years from a NASA satellite that is mapping the faint afterglow of the Big Bang. The much anticipated results support the idea that our Universe contains a good chunk of 'dark' material, and fits the theory that it expanded rapidly in its first moments.
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