Shining Universe: The Hunt for Gravitational Waves and Dark Matter.
The Simons Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert is slated to be completed by mid-2024, inspiring a search for signs of primordial gravitational waves—the afterglow of the Big Bang—in the cosmic microwave background. This next-generation cosmology experiment will be equipped with 50,000 light-collecting detectors, 10 times more than similar projects currently underway. When the Universe began