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Big bang

Two telescopes set up on the ground with patches of snow surrounding them, blue sky in the background
Astrophysics
Shining a light on the cosmic dawn
Published June 11, 2025
Small telescopes in Chile are first on Earth to cut through the cosmic noise, peering back more than 13 billion years to the universe's first light
Still from Big Bang animation
Physics+Astronomy
Dark matter may be older than the big bang
Published Aug 8, 2019
Mathematical model suggests dark matter may have been produced before the big bang during cosmic inflation, when space was expanding rapidly
Wave Hunters
Wave hunters
Published Spring 2016
Johns Hopkins astrophysicists seek to find out what happened after the Big Bang / Johns Hopkins Magazine