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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Namely, was our knowledge of the expansion of the universe after the big bang simply wrong? —

Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2024 During the first roughly 380,000 years after the big bang, space was filled with a plasma of free protons, electrons and light. —

Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024 Everything scientists know about particle physics, summed up in a theory called the Standard Model, suggests that the big bang should have created equal quantities of matter and antimatter. —

Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024 The first supermassive black holes likely formed soon after the big bang gave birth to the universe. —

Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the big bang

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