Abstract
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), discovered in 1965 by Penzias and Wilson (Penzias Sz Wilson 1965), is one of the main observational tools for cosmology. It is characterised by:
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the isotropy and homogeneity at large scales: the same intensity is measured in all the directions, suggesting that the physical process at the origin of this emission has concerned the Universe as a whole.
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the emission spectrum of the CMB is very close to the black body radiation.
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Aghanim, N. (1999). Temperature Anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background. In: Lachièze-Rey, M. (eds) Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. NATO Science Series, vol 541. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4455-1_9
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