What Happened to the Energy from Matter/Anti-Matter Annihilation?

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I've read how in the early early universe, there were massive amounts of collisions between matter and anti-matter, about a billion of each annihilated to every atom left over.
My question is, what happened to all that energy?
 
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phetuspolice said:
I've read how in the early early universe, there were massive amounts of collisions between matter and anti-matter, about a billion of each annihilated to every atom left over.
My question is, what happened to all that energy?

Without going into a lot of detail, it is the cosmic microwave background.