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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Yet the outcome of the big bang was somehow a tiny sliver more matter than antimatter—all the galaxies, dust and living things in the universe belong to this minuscule excess.
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Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 May 2026
Mason sang in the school choir as a child, but his love of music was sparked by the big bang of rock & roll, particularly the music of Buddy Holly.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2026
This epoch is so-called because we Earthlings have yet to sense anything from this time period, which started about 380,000 years after the big bang and lasted 200 million to 400 million years.
—Harry Goldstein, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2026
Having established that the cosmic microwave background is symmetric on large scales, variations in this relic radiation from the big bang have been found.
—Subir Sarkar, Space.com, 5 Jan. 2026
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Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 May 2026
Mason sang in the school choir as a child, but his love of music was sparked by the big bang of rock & roll, particularly the music of Buddy Holly.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2026
This epoch is so-called because we Earthlings have yet to sense anything from this time period, which started about 380,000 years after the big bang and lasted 200 million to 400 million years.
—Harry Goldstein, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2026
Having established that the cosmic microwave background is symmetric on large scales, variations in this relic radiation from the big bang have been found.
—Subir Sarkar, Space.com, 5 Jan. 2026
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