Big Bang
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The Big Bang is the scientific theory that the universe began as an infinitely small and infinitely dense point and has been expanding ever since. It matters because it's our best current understanding of how the universe originated and continues to evolve.
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Timeline of the expansion of the universe, where space is represented schematically at each time by circular sections. On the left, the dramatic expansion of inflation; at the center, the expansion accelerates (artist's concept; neither time nor size are to scale).
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