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Cosmic 'defect' in the universe found

Friday, 26 October 2007 by Heather Catchpole Cosmos Online Defective data: Researchers have now analysed a cold spot in the map of the cosmic microwave background and determined it has properties expected from a defect or ‘texture’. This image shows a random collection of textures taken from high-resolution, supercomputer simulations. Red indicates a positive twist in the topological charge density and blue a negative twist. Image: V. Travieso and N. Turok