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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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.
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Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
Most of the LRDs blazed during a relatively short period lasting one billion years, and starting about 600 million years after the big bang.
—Fabio Pacucci, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
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
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
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Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
Most of the LRDs blazed during a relatively short period lasting one billion years, and starting about 600 million years after the big bang.
—Fabio Pacucci, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
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
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
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