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COSMOLOGY: Gravity Distorts Big Bang Afterglow, Opening New Window on Cosmos
Adrian Cho
The best picture of the infant universe is distorted as if in a fun-house mirror, cosmologists report. Ironically, the aberration may lead to a clearer view of how the young universe evolved.