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Big Bang

The Big Bang

The Big Bang is the explanation for how the Universe started.

Astronomers think that everything started in a single point. Then everything expanded and stretched to grow into the huge Universe we see today.

An illustration of a white explosion on a black background.
This work by Pixabay is licensed under Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal

The Universe

Cosmology is the study of the Universe. It doesn't look at small objects, like stars or planets. It investigates the Universe on a large scale.

Many, many galaxies against a black background. Some are tiny dots, and they range in size all the way up to small spheres or swirls. They have different shapes, some more spiraled than others, whilst some appear like smudged lines. They range in colour from red, orange, white, green, and blue.
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The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF). Covering an area less than 1/10 of the Moon's width, the image contains about 5,500 galaxies.

Carlos Frenk

Early Life

Carlos was born in Mexico. He is the son of a German-Jewish immigrant father and a Mexican-Spanish mother. Half of Carlos’ family are musicians, the other half are doctors. Carlos was interested in maths and nature when he was young. He did not feel that music or medicine would suit him. Carlos has an undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Mexico. He started off studying engineering. He switched to physics when he realised that he was more interested in “why things work?” than “how?”.

Year born: 1951

Research Areas: Supercomputer Simulations, Galaxy Formation

 

"Scientists are sceptics. But the main thing is you have to be a rebel, because otherwise you don’t contribute to new ideas."