News tagged with early universe Related topics: galaxies , star
formation , stars , hubble space telescope , milky way The Big
Bang is the cosmological model of the initial conditions and
subsequent development of the universe that is supported by the
most comprehensive and accurate explanations from current
scientific evidence and observation. As used by cosmologists,
the term Big Bang generally refers to the idea that the universe
has expanded from a primordial hot and dense initial condition
at some finite time in the past, and continues to expand to this
day. Georges Lemaître proposed what became known as the Big Bang
theory of the origin of the Universe, although he called it his
"hypothesis of the primeval atom". The framework for the model
relies on Albert Einstein's general relativity and on
simplifying assumptions (such as homogeneity and isotropy of
space). The governing equations had been formulated by Alexander
Friedmann. After Edwin Hubble discovered in 1929 that the
distances to far away galaxie