LONDON: A cosmologist from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) believes he may just have found proof that an alternate and parallel universe does indeed exist.
In a study featured in the Astrophysical Journal, researcher Ranga-Ram Chary described evidence of a cosmic bruising, or the bumping of one universe against another, which could be used to identify an anomaly he discovered on the cosmic microwave background map.
Considered to be a remnant from the Big Bang event, the cosmic microwave background consists of the light that was formed from the chaos of the new universe’s birth.
Chary created a map of this cosmic phenomenon using data collected from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) space telescope Planck. He then compared his map with that of the entirety of the night sky after which he discovered what seems to be a blob made of bright light.
Bursts of ancient light have long been observed from the cosmic microwave background. Scientists have used these light signatures to identify traces of radiation in the universe believed to have been formed during the first hundred thousand years following the Big Bang event.
Researchers believe the ancient light itself has likely been formed from a recombination, which was when particles of protons and electrons first came together to constitute the element of hydrogen in the universe.
