COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND GROUP
AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
A glimpse into the past
The “Big Bang” signified the birth of the universe as we know it. Billions of years later, vestiges of that primordial moment still echo across the sky.
With telescopes based at the South Pole, Harvard University’s Cosmic Microwave Background group looks for these traces in order to understand how that defining moment came to pass.
Ongoing Research
Science & Instruments
The CMB Group studies the oldest light in the universe, known as the
Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), and develops telescopes for
measuring its polarization. Observing from the South Pole, our
instruments aim to discover signatures of cosmic inflation via its weak
imprint as the unique B-mode polarization signature of the CMB, directly
probing the Universe at an earlier time than ever before.
collaborations
The CMB group at Harvard University works closely with the BICEP/Keck
program, the South Pole Observatory, and the CMB-S4 project.