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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How Gaia Formed Researchers suspect that the star orbiting BH3, probably formed in the first two billion years after the big bang, according to a press release. —Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024

These are galaxies that were born just after the big bang about 13.8 billion years ago. —Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 Apr. 2024

So, by smashing subatomic particles together at high energies, physicists can blast out new particles—fleeting, massive entities not seen since the big bang. —Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024

Buy on Amazon The Art Of Fermentation Sandor Katz and this book might be the big bang of the home fermentation renaissance. —Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2023

Three billion years after the big bang, the morphology of our Milky Way was pretty well fixed. —Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024

Since the 1980s science writer Ann Finkbeiner has been covering the cutting edge of cosmology—the big bang, the structure of the universe, the evolution of galaxies. —Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024

The 1964 discovery of evidence supporting the big bang theory immediately elevated cosmology from metaphysics to hard science. —Richard Panek, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023

Water’s cosmic odyssey began hundreds of millions of years after the big bang. —Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024