And it revealed a strange asymmetry in the background radiation. Astronomers still don’t know what caused this. And while the new pictures don’t challenge the Big Bang theory, they do mean ...

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The big bang is now orthodoxy, although without a theory than unifies general relativity with quantum theory, we’re stuck in explaining exactly what it was or why it happened. But the clinching ...

Research in the second half of the 20th Century and the identification of cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation in particular further strengthened the case of the Big Bang theory.