🔬 Discovery

Planck precision cosmology

Cosmología de precisión: edad y composición del universo (Planck)

Date
2013-2018 · confidence high
Place
ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany
Credited to
Planck Collaboration (ESA)
Field
Movement

What was discovered

The Planck satellite set the age of the universe at 13.8 billion years and its composition: 5% ordinary matter, 27% dark matter, 68% dark energy, with a flat geometry.

Continues the work of WMAP (NASA, 2001-2010).

What it led to

  • Standard Lambda-CDM model
  • Hubble tension
  • Constraints on inflation
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