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What is the name of the hypothesis that suggests the universe began from an extremely hot and dense point?

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Steady State theory

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The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model for the observable universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale evolution, proposing it originated from a singularity.

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NCERT Scientific Resources ↗Encyclopaedia Britannica — Science ↗

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