The Very Small Detected Irregularities in the Uniformity of the Cosmic

question 159

Multiple Choice

The very small detected irregularities in the uniformity of the cosmic microwave background are considered to be very important in the study of the evolution of our universe because they:

• A) show us that the Big Bang explosion was very nonuniform.
• B) were the seeds of supermassive black holes around which the earliest superclusters of galaxies then formed.
• C) are thought to have led to the development of the present concentrations of matter and energy in superclusters of galaxies.
• D) are thought to contain most of the elusive "missing matter" in the form of energy concentration in the universe.

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