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Dark Forces Twisted the Light from the Past ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Cosmic Birefringence from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data Release 6"
· P. Diego-Palazuelos, E. Komatsu
arXiv:2509.13654 · 2025-09-17 · CC BY 4.0 · ⏱ 1 min · Cosmology
The oldest light in the universe reached us slightly twisted — possibly rotated by a dark matter field.
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The oldest light in the universe reached us slightly twisted — as if an invisible field had spun it. Astronomers suspect dark matter. If confirmed, we’ll see traces of what most of the cosmos is made of for the first time.

🎯 A 0.2-degree twist is like walking from Earth to the Moon and deviating from a straight line by just the thickness of a human hair.

Scientists
Alan GuthAndrei LindeGeorges LemaîtreJames PeeblesAdam RiessBrian Schmidt
Tags
dark matter big bang dark energy Standard Model
Laws
Friedmann equationsHubble's lawgravitational lensingNoether's theoremEinstein field equationsPlanck's law
Original: arXiv:2509.13654 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds