How to Use the big bang in a Sentence

the big bang

noun
  • This is a recipe for the evolution of the universe, from the beginning of time to today (and beyond): Start with the big bang.
    Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The galaxies date back to less than 400 million years after the big bang — a time when the universe was just 2% of its current age.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • In the first tiny fractions of a second after the big bang, the universe was too hot and dense for the strong force to bind quarks and gluons together.
    Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
  • In the early universe, dark stars could have formed from the collapse of helium and hydrogen clouds made in the big bang.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 20 July 2023
  • It was designed, in part, to gather light that has been travelling to Earth since shortly after the big bang.
    David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Solving that mystery could reveal how the very first black holes and galaxies were born after the big bang.
    Fabio Pacucci, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Wondering what happened before the big bang is like wondering what’s south of the South Pole.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Three billion years after the big bang, the morphology of our Milky Way was pretty well fixed.
    Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • For example, the isotope helium 3, which has two protons and one neutron, was made in stars and during the big bang.
    Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 2 Dec. 2023
  • That poetic phrase is what astronomers call the time just a few hundred million years after the big bang when the very first stars switched on, flooding the cosmos with light.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Water’s cosmic odyssey began hundreds of millions of years after the big bang.
    Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Our laws of physics clearly decree that the big bang ought to have created equal parts matter and antimatter.
    Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The new measurements suggest the dwarf galaxy may have formed billions of years after the big bang—much later than other galaxies close to ours.
    Allison Gasparini, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Its images—more detailed than what was possible before—show space aglow with galaxies, some of them formed very soon after the big bang.
    IEEE Spectrum, 9 Sep. 2022
  • According to the Standard Model of physics, the big bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2023
  • That residual glow offered landmark evidence that the universe was created by the big bang.
    Joel Achenbach and Victoria Jaggard, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2023
  • 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 star in the very distant universe, and a billion years after the big bang, was captured by the observatory's Near-InfraRed Camera instrument.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The galaxy is actually a dusty imposter located at a redshift of 4.9, a still impressive but not at all record-breaking 1.2 billion years after the big bang.
    Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Either the big bang created an unexplained glut of matter, or something unknown happened.
    Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
  • This is the giant horn antenna that was used in physics research that led to the discovery of background cosmic radiation, which provided support for the big bang theory.
    IEEE Spectrum, 24 Mar. 2023
  • But the heavier elements, like carbon and oxygen, formed well after the big bang, mostly in first-generation stars and not in planets and life until planets formed around later-generation stars like the Sun.
    David H. Devorkin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The standard theory of cosmology, lambda-cold dark matter (LCDM), says clouds of dark matter—the mysterious stuff making up 85% of the universe’s mass—began to clump up into halos soon after the big bang.
    Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 28 Mar. 2023
  • But other, stranger phenomena, such as cosmic strings or massively inflated quantum fluctuations from right after the big bang, could also be contributing to the gravitational-wave background.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 28 June 2023
  • 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

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