“Bazinga?” The term, pilfered from popular culture, might just capture the befuddlement that lingers around the Big Bang. For decades, the picture of a cosmic firecracker matter exploded outward from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No one knows what kicked off the Big Bang that eventually allowed the stars to begin forming. Adolf Schaller for STScI, CC BY How ...

Scientists have long been interested in the early history of the universe. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking helped popularize that the Big Bang was a singular point in time — but that's not how many ...

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