Faint ripples in the cosmological microwave background, revealed by NASA's COBE satellite, were the seeds in the Big Bang that eventually became large-scale structures in the Universe.
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Silk, J. Cosmology back to the beginning. Nature 356, 741–742 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/356741a0
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