The new approximations have designated that the age of the Universe is 13.75 billion years, which is 20 million years more than was examined earlier.
Previously, scientists using data from NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) calculated the time since the Big Bang to be an extremely precise 13.73 billion years (give or take 0.12 billion years).
And now, according to a report in Discovery News, using the same space-based observatory, the age of the universe has been advanced even further, adding another 20 million years to the total (plus or minus 0.11 billion years).
Using data from the first 7 years of operation, this refined universal age could be arrived at.
The longer the observatory is equipped, the longer the revelation time, therefore the results become more clear-cut.
They are trying to find further evidence for what we believe happened in the moments after the Big Bang and now WMAP is filling in the gaps of our knowledge.
In addition to the precise age measurement, WMAP has been able to detect small acoustic oscillations (the cosmic equivalent to sound waves) in the CMB radiation, and the signature detected suggests primordial helium was generated in predicted quantities in the early stages of universal evolution.
Also, by measuring the fluctuations of the radiation over all scales, there is fact that suggests there was a very quick development just after the Big Bang, which is quite astonishing.
