An electromagnetic radiation field at a black body temperature of 2.7 Kelvin that fills the entire universe uniformly to 0.00001 Kelvin. Also known as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), it is thought to be the residual glow from the very hot early universe that followed the Big Bang.
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