WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT SPACE-TIME?
1 The Big Bang
According to general relativity, space-time began in a singularity 13.8 billion years ago. It has been expanding ever since.
2 The first light
380,000 years after the Big Bang, space-time had cooled enough for atoms to form, and light that had previously been trapped flooded the universe.
3 The first stars
After 100 to 200
