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Cosmology

Research at Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics covers a wide area of observational and theoretical research in cosmology and gravitational physics.

• Observational CMB - the study of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background, which allows us to probe the Universe at early times and make deductions about fundamental processes in cosmology
• Theoretical cosmology - the investigation of physical and mathematical models of the early Universe
• Gravitational lensing - the study of multiple images produced by gravitational bending of light, which gives probes of light and dark matter distributions in galaxies and clusters