Dust erases evidence for gravity wave detection
Spacetime ripples may exist, but search must continue, new analysis concludes
DUST IN DEPTH The Planck satellite analyzed the same patch of sky, shown here within the white dots, that the BICEP2 telescope measured in a search for primordial gravitational waves. Yellow and red patches contain the most galactic dust.
Planck/ESA Collaboration. Acknowledgment: M.-A. Miville-Deschênes, CNRS – Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, Université Paris-XI, Orsay, France