Space expanded faster than light after the Big Bang
In the universe's infancy, space itself expanded faster than light, allowing the cosmos to grow vast in an instant without breaking physics' speed rules.
About 13.8 billion years ago, the universe began with the Big Bang. During its earliest moments, space itself stretched faster than the speed of light. This doesn't break Einstein's rules because no object actually moved through space; instead, the space between points rapidly grew, allowing the universe to become incredibly vast in an instant.
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