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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Webb has not only pushed back the tape of galaxy formation, but even mainstream observational astronomers now realize that their models need updating to explain what Webb has been seeing only 300 million years after the big bang.
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Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
Looking at 341 of them revealed that these objects mostly appeared around 600 million years after the big bang and then declined, disappearing by about 1.5 billion years ago.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 14 Jan. 2025
The current paradigm is that galaxies initially formed shortly after the big bang.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 May 2025
Scientists are now studying galaxies stretching back to at least 320 million years after the big bang.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2024
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Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
Looking at 341 of them revealed that these objects mostly appeared around 600 million years after the big bang and then declined, disappearing by about 1.5 billion years ago.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 14 Jan. 2025
The current paradigm is that galaxies initially formed shortly after the big bang.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 May 2025
Scientists are now studying galaxies stretching back to at least 320 million years after the big bang.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2024
See All Example Sentences for the big bang
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