Scarcely a day goes by without some news outlet or other claiming that recent observations have ruled out the standard cosmological model. This remarkable new image does however seem to cast doubt on many aspects of the Big Bang Theory:
For one thing, it seems to be much less homogeneous and isotropic than we previously imagined. Although the composition is uncertain, it also seems to have a much higher fraction of baryonic matter than currently assumed. Whether or not this picture overthrows the standard model or not, it seems likely to lead to a revival of interest in cosmological applications of the Burgers equation.
