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The images of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is a fossil relic of the first light in the universe, reveal what the 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos was like just 380,000 years after the Big Bang.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 18 Mar. 2025
The cosmic microwave background is the leftover glow from the big bang itself and was crucial to the discovery that the universe had a definitive starting point.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2024
For example, superstructures can bend light in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, distort our measurements of the universe’s expansion and impact the cosmic microwave background (CMB)—a type of radiation scientists depend on to study the Big Bang.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Feb. 2025
The researchers think this high-energy neutrino could have been generated when an ultra-high energy cosmic ray, most likely a proton, struck a photon in the cosmic microwave background (CMB).
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Feb. 2025
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 18 Mar. 2025
The cosmic microwave background is the leftover glow from the big bang itself and was crucial to the discovery that the universe had a definitive starting point.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2024
For example, superstructures can bend light in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, distort our measurements of the universe’s expansion and impact the cosmic microwave background (CMB)—a type of radiation scientists depend on to study the Big Bang.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Feb. 2025
The researchers think this high-energy neutrino could have been generated when an ultra-high energy cosmic ray, most likely a proton, struck a photon in the cosmic microwave background (CMB).
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Feb. 2025
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“Cosmic microwave background.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cosmic%20microwave%20background. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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