By this measure, decoupling took place over roughly 115,000 years, and when it was complete, the Universe was roughly 487,000 years old.
Skupina WMAP je ugotovila, da je funkcija PVF večja kot polovica njene največje vrednosti (»polna širina pri polovičnem maksimumu« ali FWHM) v intervalu 115 ± 5 ka.