Eagle Nebula (Hubble image) More and more cosmologists think that the Big Bang was only one of many previous Big Bangs.
Crab Nebula (Hubble image) In fact the analysis of the relic radiation generated by that explosive event suggests that the Universe has cycle through myriad episodes of death and rebirth, with the Big Bang merely the most recent (13.7 billion years ago) in a series of starting guns.See Xiv.org - Nov. 17 2010
Antennae Galaxies (Hubble image).
