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
  • Lemaitre was the first to argue that the expansion must have begun during the big bang.
    — Chris Impey, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
  • So, the Revolution is the big bang of this universe.
    — ABC News, 16 Nov. 2025
  • The first supermassive black holes likely formed soon after the big bang gave birth to the universe.
    — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • After the initial glow of the big bang faded, no new light came into the universe until the first stars formed.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 July 2019
  • LeMaître’s idea likely sounds familiar, as it is now known as the big bang theory.
    — Julianne Pepitone, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Water’s cosmic odyssey began hundreds of millions of years after the big bang.
    — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Namely, was our knowledge of the expansion of the universe after the big bang simply wrong?
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Three billion years after the big bang, the morphology of our Milky Way was pretty well fixed.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Our oldest snapshot of the universe comes from some 380,000 years after the big bang.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Wondering what happened before the big bang is like wondering what’s south of the South Pole.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Either the big bang created an unexplained glut of matter, or something unknown happened.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 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
  • The current paradigm is that galaxies initially formed shortly after the big bang.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 May 2025
  • Scientists are now studying galaxies stretching back to at least 320 million years after the big bang.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2024

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