As far as astronomers know, the Big Bang is why we’re all here. The massive explosion sent all the matter ... think of a point in space that gobbles up everything in its path.

Over the last century or so, science has homed in on an answer: the Big Bang. This describes how the universe was born in a cataclysmic explosion ... soup" was made up of quarks and gluons.

If you think about the Big Bang as an explosion, this tiny interval is when the explosion in volume occurred. Protons and neutrons began to form after about a microsecond (10⁻⁶ seconds).

This is similar to an explosion, where the bits moving fastest ... provided very strong support for the Big Bang theory, and led to the Big Bang becoming the currently accepted model of the ...

Using four telescopes including the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in Pune, astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the universe since the Big Bang. The blast ...