The Big Bang Theory

Question 1

When did the universe begin?

Answer 1

13.7 billion years ago

Question 2

How did the universe begin?

Answer 2

As a violent expansion

-all matter and space were created from a single point of pure energy

Question 3

What happened three minutes after the violent expansion that created the universe?

Answer 3

Energy frozen to matter

Question 4

What happened several hundred thousand years after the violent expansion that created the universe?

Answer 4

Adams form specifically hydrogen and isotopes with a small amount of helium

Question 5

What happened 200 to 400 million years after the Big Bang?

Answer 5

First stars and galaxies formed

Question 6

What happened 4.6 billion years ago?

Answer 6

Our solar system formed

Question 7

What is red shift?

Answer 7

When an object moves away from us it’s light waves are stretched into lower frequencies or longer wavelengths and we say that the light is red shifted

Question 8

What does spectral evidence indicates?

Answer 8

Objects further from us are moving faster then those near

Question 9

What is a Quasar?

Answer 9

Distant, young galaxies that emit large amounts of energy produced by supermassive black hole at its centre