It's from this singularity that our universe is thought to have exploded, but prior to that ... thought and was actually formed just before the Big Bang during the cosmic inflation stage.

The Big Bang theory, by comparison, proposes that the universe began as an infinitely small, hot point of densely packed matter and energy. That point then exploded into a flood ... dissipating before ...

Emma Chapman reviews Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins by Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper Before the bang That the universe evolved from a "hot Big Bang" is not in question, ...