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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During the first roughly 380,000 years after the big bang, space was filled with a plasma of free protons, electrons and light.
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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
Instead there is a remarkable array of big, bright galaxies, many containing supermassive black holes, that emitted their light just 300 million years or so after the big bang.
—Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
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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
Instead there is a remarkable array of big, bright galaxies, many containing supermassive black holes, that emitted their light just 300 million years or so after the big bang.
—Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
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