The static buzz you hear is mostly due to the ambient radio produced by our noisy pre-galactic civilization ... different – it’s the cosmic microwave background radiation.

Following a thorough peer-review process, the researchers who previously announced the detection of B-mode polarization in a patch of the microwave ... generation of the Background Imaging of ...

The cosmic microwave background, when we look at its spectrum in detail, is a far more perfect blackbody than any star could ever hope to be. It isn't dust. It isn't starlight. It isn't that your ...

So, to spot this hidden matter, researchers turned to a technique that takes advantage of the oldest light in the universe: the cosmic microwave ... flowing from the galactic core into space ...

The Cosmic Microwave Background also tells us how the Universe ... thereby learning our first galactic distances. And finally, we needed to identify other galactic properties that were measurable ...

We still see them today as microwave emissions. Astronomers mapping this cosmic microwave background in the 1990s to better understand the universe’s genesis noticed other signals coming from ...

Is Stephen Hawking a galactic graffiti artist? Hidden away in the cosmic microwave background, the afterglow of the big bang, the initials “SH” are clear to view (see picture, right).