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Published online 21 December 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news001221-8
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Boost for Big Bang theory
Astrophysicists have looked back 12 billion years to take the temperature of the infant Universe.
TheUniverse is getting colder. It has been cooling down ever since the Big Bang, which is thought to have happened about 15 billion years ago.
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