How to Use the big bang in a Sentence

the big bang

noun
  • This is where the idea of the big bang model for the origin of the universe comes from.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2025
  • So, the Revolution is the big bang of this universe.
    — ABC News, 16 Nov. 2025
  • LeMaître’s idea likely sounds familiar, as it is now known as the big bang theory.
    — Julianne Pepitone, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The universe is filled with radiation leftover from the big bang called the cosmic microwave background.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2026
  • This noise also includes the cosmic microwave background radiation, a ghost of the big bang.
    — Sven Bilén, IEEE Spectrum, 23 July 2020
  • Our oldest snapshot of the universe comes from some 380,000 years after the big bang.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The new red monster is just one of a growing group, with others usually spotted at times closer to about a billion years after the big bang.
    — Jenna Ahart, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Picture this, Boyle says, like the points of two ice cream cones touching each other, with their contact representing the big bang.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 10 Feb. 2026
  • So far, the telescope has managed to spot galaxies as early as about 280 million years after the big bang.
    — Jenna Ahart, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2026
  • In the aftermath of the big bang, the universe was filled with neutral hydrogen gas that is opaque at short wavelengths of light, such as ultraviolet.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 June 2026
  • Most of the natural supply of helium-3 formed in the first few minutes after the big bang, and Earth’s stores were laid down billions of years ago, when our planet formed.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
  • The topology of spacetime was likely determined by the quantum processes that occurred shortly after the big bang.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 May 2026
  • Mason sang in the school choir as a child, but his love of music was sparked by the big bang of rock & roll, particularly the music of Buddy Holly.
    — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 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
  • That is, the process that (within the first three minutes after the big bang) produced the first light elements --- hydrogen, helium, and tiny amounts of lithium and beryllium.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Yet the outcome of the big bang was somehow a tiny sliver more matter than antimatter—all the galaxies, dust and living things in the universe belong to this minuscule excess.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 May 2026
  • He is best known for proposing the theory of cosmic inflation, a concept that transformed modern understanding of the early universe and the evolution of the big bang.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 16 June 2026
  • Energies like this were common, even ubiquitous, in the very early universe, so finding particles like this is like having a window into the fraction of a second after the big bang.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Such heavy loads of dust are generally thought to arise much later in cosmic history than circa 400 million years after the big bang, the epoch at which this newfound galaxy appears.
    — Jenna Ahart, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2026
  • For this confirmation of the big bang, Penzias and Wilson shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The signals, which persisted day and night, turned out to be cosmic microwave background radiation that permeates the universe—a remnant from the creation of the cosmos—that helped confirm the big bang theory.
    — Julianne Pepitone, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Burns himself is especially interested in the cosmic dark ages, an epoch that began more than 13 billion years ago, just 380,000 years after the big bang.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Penzias and Wilson had accidentally found the cosmic microwave background, or CMB, the leftover radiation from the big bang.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Such stars are the key quarry that JWST was designed for—stellar orbs composed of the pristine, primordial hydrogen and helium gas that was summoned into being by the big bang.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 13 May 2026
  • This is the faint thermal afterglow from some 380,000 years after the big bang that was unleashed when the hot, foglike plasma that filled the early universe cooled and cleared as primordial atomic nuclei bonded with free electrons.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 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
  • Doing so could help scientists understand for the first time what happened immediately after the big bang, says Wisniewski, who serves as program scientist for the SPHEREx mission.
    — Matt Alderton, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Here was where the big bang was discovered However, in 2021, Nokia sold the area in which the Holmdel Horn Antenna is located to technology entrepreneur Rakesh Antala.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope have found such large black holes within galaxies earlier and earlier in the universe, including the recent discovery of a 50-million-solar-mass black hole seen just 700 million years after the big bang.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 4 June 2026
  • On Wednesday astronomers on announced that a bright galaxy called MoM-z14 that was found using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the farthest yet detected, existing just 280 million years after the big bang.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2026

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