BIG BANG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does big bang mean? 

• BIG BANG (noun)
  The noun BIG BANG has 1 sense:

1. (cosmology) the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin of the universe

  Familiarity information: BIG BANG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIG BANG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(cosmology) the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin of the universe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("big bang" is a kind of...):

blowup; detonation; explosion (a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction)

Domain category:

cosmogeny; cosmogony; cosmology (the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe)

 Context examples 

Already, an infant galaxy has been found in the field, as it looked 1 billion years after the big bang.

(NASA’s Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier, NASA)

The background is the most ancient light in the history of the cosmos, dating back to 380,000 years after the big bang.

(First Stars Formed Later Than We Thought, NASA)

And if it does work, he added, "you'd get a big bang for your buck."

(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)

The object is considered prototypical of young galaxies that emerged during the epoch shortly after the big bang.

(NASA's Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Image of Distant Galaxy, NASA)

Astronomers from the Dark Cosmology Center at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark discovered the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang.

(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)