Dr. Sarbmeet Kanwal plans to discuss how the Horn Antenna in Holmdel led to the Big Bang theory at a talk at the county library's Holmdel branch.

Bell Labs built a giant antenna in Holmdel, New Jersey, in 1960. It was part of a very early satellite transmission system called Echo. By collecting and amplifying weak radio signals bounced off ...

The Horn Antenna was the instrument used by radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson that detected a background noise, later discovered to be caused by cosmic microwave background radiation.