Imagine looking at a map of the entire universe and finding that its largest features are pointing right at us. This is the mystery of the Axis of Evil. The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is the afterglow of the Big Bang, a snapshot of the universe when it was only 380,000 years old. According to the standard model of cosmology, the temperature fluctuations in this map should be completely random. There should be no preferred direction or special alignment in the sky. However, data from the W

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