Looking out to a radius of 13.8 billion light-years in all directions, we see the cosmic microwave background (CMB, for short)—light that was emitted soon after the Big Bang beginning of the universe ...
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 1927 Georges Lemaître proposed that the Universe began with an explosion called the Big Bang. Hubble’s research into the red shift of galaxy light showed that the Universe was expanding ...