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LESSON 1 · The Universe: From Big Bang to Black Holes

PAUSE TO THINK

What was the temperature of the universe one second after the Big Bang?

About 10 billion C

At that heat, matter could not hold together as atoms. It existed as a searing plasma of quarks, electrons, neutrinos, and photons, all colliding far too violently to form anything stable.

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