02 March 2018
Light from the Universe’s first stars detected
... antenna not much larger than a refrigerator. The signal, which has left its imprint in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the background electromagnetic radiation that permeates the Universe – confirms that the ancient suns were active within...
23 July 2018
Small box with big designs to find the missing matter in the Universe
... x 30 centimetre CubeSat known as HaloSat is on a mission to find the missing mass in the Universe. From data gathered on the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the oldest light in the universe that has been permeating space from around 400,000 after...
17 July 2019
New measurement deepens mystery of Universe’s expansion rate
... the oldest light we can see, the cosmic microwave background. This latter method involves mapping slight temperature ...to 3.3 million light years or 3 x 10^22 metres); whereas the CMB result plots the expansion at 67.4 km/sec/Mpc. Now, there is...
26 April 2017
Cold Spot in CMB could be evidence for a multiverse
... far more exotic origins than the super void explanation it was initially given, say researchers. The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is radiation left over from the Big Bang that permeates the whole of the sky. It is the oldest...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
... to come. If c were not changing, human life would not be here to talk about it. Big Bang backup The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is leftover radiation from about 380,000 years after the Big Bang that fills all of space...
01 February 2017
Researchers find substantial observational evidence for a holographic Universe
... have provided what could be the first observational evidence to support a holographic explanation of the Universe. The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is often described as the leftover radiation of the Big Bang and studies of this phenomena offer...
