New findings support inflationary universe

ARLINGTON, Va., May 23 (UPI) -- New findings lend even more evidence that the universe as we know it began not only with a Big Bang, but also a superbrief but superpowerful outward push by a mysterious phenomenon called inflation, scientists reported Friday. Data collected by the Cosmic Background Imager observatory of tiny variations in the universe's background radiation represent the finest detail yet seen of what CBI astronomers call "the seeds of the first galaxies."