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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Astronomers theorize that the distribution of the galaxies was influenced by a universe-expanding event that took place almost 14 billion years ago after the big bang.
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
Now, astronomers have compiled a massive catalog of Little Red Dots, all of which date back to the first 1.5 billion years after the big bang, and have found that a large proportion of these appear to contain supermassive black holes that are actively growing.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
This time line implies life could have begun scarcely 300 million years after the big bang, perhaps even before the first recognizable galaxies formed.
—Conor Feehly, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2025
Neutrinos, which don't have an electric charge, can be formed when energetic protons combine with photons from radiation left over from the big bang that created the universe.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
Now, astronomers have compiled a massive catalog of Little Red Dots, all of which date back to the first 1.5 billion years after the big bang, and have found that a large proportion of these appear to contain supermassive black holes that are actively growing.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
This time line implies life could have begun scarcely 300 million years after the big bang, perhaps even before the first recognizable galaxies formed.
—Conor Feehly, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2025
Neutrinos, which don't have an electric charge, can be formed when energetic protons combine with photons from radiation left over from the big bang that created the universe.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025
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