How to Use the big bang in a Sentence

the big bang

noun

• The class was searching for ancient stars that formed soon after the big bang–about 13.8 billion years ago.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 May 2024
• This is a recipe for the evolution of the universe, from the beginning of time to today (and beyond): Start with the big bang.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2023
• These are galaxies that were born just after the big bang about 13.8 billion years ago.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 Apr. 2024
• The galaxies date back to less than 400 million years after the big bang — a time when the universe was just 2% of its current age.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2023
• In the first tiny fractions of a second after the big bang, the universe was too hot and dense for the strong force to bind quarks and gluons together.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
• In the early universe, dark stars could have formed from the collapse of helium and hydrogen clouds made in the big bang.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 20 July 2023
• It was designed, in part, to gather light that has been travelling to Earth since shortly after the big bang.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
• Solving that mystery could reveal how the very first black holes and galaxies were born after the big bang.
  — Fabio Pacucci, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2023
• Wondering what happened before the big bang is like wondering what’s south of the South Pole.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2023
• Three billion years after the big bang, the morphology of our Milky Way was pretty well fixed.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• For example, the isotope helium 3, which has two protons and one neutron, was made in stars and during the big bang.
  — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 2 Dec. 2023
• That poetic phrase is what astronomers call the time just a few hundred million years after the big bang when the very first stars switched on, flooding the cosmos with light.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
• Water’s cosmic odyssey began hundreds of millions of years after the big bang.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024
• Our laws of physics clearly decree that the big bang ought to have created equal parts matter and antimatter.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
• The new measurements suggest the dwarf galaxy may have formed billions of years after the big bang—much later than other galaxies close to ours.
  — Allison Gasparini, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
• Its images—more detailed than what was possible before—show space aglow with galaxies, some of them formed very soon after the big bang.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Sep. 2022
• Early in the search, renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking postulated that dark matter could be hiding in black holes — the main subject of his work — formed during the big bang.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 17 June 2024
• According to the Standard Model of physics, the big bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2023
• That residual glow offered landmark evidence that the universe was created by the big bang.
  — Joel Achenbach and Victoria Jaggard, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2023
• Since the 1980s science writer Ann Finkbeiner has been covering the cutting edge of cosmology—the big bang, the structure of the universe, the evolution of galaxies.
  — Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• The star in the very distant universe, and a billion years after the big bang, was captured by the observatory's Near-InfraRed Camera instrument.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 10 Aug. 2023
• The galaxy is actually a dusty imposter located at a redshift of 4.9, a still impressive but not at all record-breaking 1.2 billion years after the big bang.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 13 Apr. 2023
• Either the big bang created an unexplained glut of matter, or something unknown happened.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
• This is the giant horn antenna that was used in physics research that led to the discovery of background cosmic radiation, which provided support for the big bang theory.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Mar. 2023
• But the heavier elements, like carbon and oxygen, formed well after the big bang, mostly in first-generation stars and not in planets and life until planets formed around later-generation stars like the Sun.
  — David H. Devorkin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2023
• The standard theory of cosmology, lambda-cold dark matter (LCDM), says clouds of dark matter—the mysterious stuff making up 85% of the universe’s mass—began to clump up into halos soon after the big bang.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 28 Mar. 2023
• So, by smashing subatomic particles together at high energies, physicists can blast out new particles—fleeting, massive entities not seen since the big bang.
  — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
• But other, stranger phenomena, such as cosmic strings or massively inflated quantum fluctuations from right after the big bang, could also be contributing to the gravitational-wave background.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 28 June 2023
• The 1964 discovery of evidence supporting the big bang theory immediately elevated cosmology from metaphysics to hard science.
  — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024