For their accidental discovery, Penzias and Wilson received a Nobel Peace Prize and Bell Labs put another trophy on the wall. After checking for every possible problem with interference, malfunctions and test procedures, they came to the realization that their horn was picking up the afterglow of the Big Bang, a low-level microwave remnant that was predicted by theorists who worked on Big Bang theory. Their observations found a steady background noise that they couldn’t explain. Using a 20’ microwave horn antenna, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were looking for radio signals from the Milky Way and regions between the galaxies. ![]() In 1964, Scientists working at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, made one of the monumental discoveries in science. (Effective August 1, 2009, Maxxhorn has changed its company name to AFFIRM AUDIO.
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