SOLAR SYSTEM

UNIVERSE

SPACE EXPLORATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The phenomenon known as Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provided evidence that the universe was once very hot and dense. How did CMB contribute to the big bang theory?
A
CMB confirmed how matter expanded during the big bang.
B
CMB was the magnetic field that was created during the big bang.
C
CMB was a reflection of the thermal energy generated during the big bang.
D
CMB represented energy trails from moving matter that began with the big bang.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -According to standard cosmology, the CMB gives a snapshot of the hot early universe at the point in time when the temperature dropped enough to allow electrons and protons to form hydrogen atoms. This event made the universe nearly transparent to radiation because light was no longer being scattered off free electrons.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is the cooled remnant of the first light that could ever travel freely throughout the Universe. This ‘fossil’ radiation, the furthest that any telescope can see, was released soon after the ‘Big Bang’. Scientists consider it as an echo or ‘shockwave’ of the Big Bang.

Detailed explanation-3: -Their detection of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the radiation left over from the birth of the universe, provided the strongest possible evidence that the universe expanded from an initial violent explosion, known as The Big Bang.

Detailed explanation-4: -Tests of Big Bang: The CMB. The Big Bang theory predicts that the early universe was a very hot place and that as it expands, the gas within it cools. Thus the universe should be filled with radiation that is literally the remnant heat left over from the Big Bang, called the “cosmic microwave background", or CMB.

Detailed explanation-5: -Another way to estimate the age of the universe is by using the cosmic microwave background, radiation left over from just after the big bang that extends in every direction. “The CMB tells you the initial conditions and the recipe of the early universe-what kinds of stuff it had in it, ‘’ Riess says.

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