Today, those particles of light arrive to us in the form of a faint glow known as the cosmic microwave background. Then the ...

This Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR ... This radiation is now used to 'map' the early Universe. The diagram below is a heat map showing that temperature was not evenly distributed.

In 2020 Nobel Laureate Sir Roger Penrose claimed that an earlier universe existed before the Big Bang and can still be observed today as a scar on the cosmic microwave background (CMB).

Distances to objects in the universe are measured indirectly and take advantage of the parallax effect. When an object is being measured against a stationary background, it appears to move when ...

Cosmic inflation is a faster-than-light expansion of the universe that spawned many others. Inflation was invented to explain a couple of features of the universe that are really hard to explain ...

By studying the CMB, scientists have been able to determine the age, shape and contents of the Universe. "Cosmic background radiation was discovered in 1965, and turned out to be a goldmine for ...