According to the Current Understanding of Cosmology, What Is the Origin

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Multiple Choice

According to the current understanding of cosmology, what is the origin of the foamy structure of the universe, with clusters of galaxies distributed on the perimeters of voids?

• A) The early epoch of star formation caused the clusters of galaxies to repel one another, and the present distribution was the result.
• B) The matter in the universe is now believed to be very smoothly distributed, just as it was after the Big Bang. What astronomers see as voids is really dark matter.
• C) Quantum fluctuations in the early universe were greatly exaggerated during the epoch of inflation to become the uneven distribution astronomers now observe.
• D) The universe was formed "clumpy" in the Big Bang, and the clumpiness persists to the present day.

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