Bang 2014 - Big

The Reddit threads turned sour. Headlines changed from "Discovery of the Century" to "Big Bang Blunder."

The dirty secret of CMB astronomy is . The Milky Way is filled with magnetized dust grains that emit their own microwave radiation. If you don't subtract that dust correctly, it can mimic a B-mode signal. big bang 2014

During the chaos of proving the BICEP2 team wrong, scientists made a crucial discovery about something else: The joint BICEP2/Planck analysis gave us the most detailed map of galactic magnetic fields ever created. The Reddit threads turned sour

We are still hunting that whisper. And when we finally find it (likely in the 2030s), we will look back at 2014 as the moment we learned how to stop being fooled by the dust in our own eyes. If you don't subtract that dust correctly, it