New data on the cosmic background radiation are making cosmologists revise their view of the Universe. The biggest surprise is that the data favour a larger amount of 'ordinary matter' than was ...

Cosmic Microwave Background Reveals No Rotation. 5mo. Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc.Sep 30 2024. As they reported in a study in Physical Review Letters, researchers from the University of ...

The Cosmic Microwave Background carries with it a record of events throughout the 13.8-billion-year history of the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) was generated when our universe was only 380,000 years old. At the time, our cosmos was about a million times smaller than it is today and had a temperature ...

Findings from a new study into the cosmic "afterglow" may rewrite the history of the universe, according to researchers. This afterglow—the "cosmic microwave background" (CMB), the relic ...

The image shows the cosmic microwave background radiation visible 380,000 years after the Big Bang. ACT Collaboration; ESA/Planck Collaboration "Before, we got to see where things were, and now we ...

In the 1990s, a NASA satellite, the Cosmic Background Explorer, revealed tiny temperature ripples within the cosmic microwaves — fingerprints pointing to what the early universe looked like.