the big bang
noun
: a huge explosion that is believed to have happened when the universe began
a few billion years after the big bang
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Neutrinos, which don't have an electric charge, can be formed when energetic protons combine with photons from radiation left over from the big bang that created the universe.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025
Lemaitre was the first to argue that the expansion must have begun during the big bang.
—Chris Impey, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
After the initial glow of the big bang faded, no new light came into the universe until the first stars formed.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 July 2019
In essence, the far future of the cosmos becomes the big bang of a new one, and our cosmos is just one of an infinite strand that always seamlessly emerge from each other.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025
Lemaitre was the first to argue that the expansion must have begun during the big bang.
—Chris Impey, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
After the initial glow of the big bang faded, no new light came into the universe until the first stars formed.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 July 2019
In essence, the far future of the cosmos becomes the big bang of a new one, and our cosmos is just one of an infinite strand that always seamlessly emerge from each other.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the big bang
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“The big bang.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20big%20bang. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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