Cosmic background radiation detected in space is believed to be evidence that:
1-The universe began with an explosion
2-The universe is contracting
3-All matter in the universe is stationary
4-Galaxies are evenly spaced throughout the universe
CMB is landmark evidence of the Big Bang origin of the universe. When the universe was young, before the formation of stars and planets, it was denser, much hotter, and filled with an opaque fog of hydrogen plasma.