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 first water molecules may have formed just 100 million to 200 million years after the big bang – before even the first ..

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, ...