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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Picture this, Boyle says, like the points of two ice cream cones touching each other, with their contact representing the big bang.
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Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 10 Feb. 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
It has been theorized that dark matter originated from the big bang that led to the creation of the universe 13.8 billion years ago and makes up cosmic clouds that never accumulated enough gas to form stars.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 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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Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 10 Feb. 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
It has been theorized that dark matter originated from the big bang that led to the creation of the universe 13.8 billion years ago and makes up cosmic clouds that never accumulated enough gas to form stars.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 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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