Who coined the term "Big Bang" to describe the universe's beginnings?
Edward Hubble
Georges Lemaître
Roger Penrose
Fred Hoyle
Answer
The term "Big Bang" was coined by Fred Hoyle, a British astronomer, to describe the universe's beginnings. Hoyle was a proponent of the steady state theory of the universe, which held that the universe was eternal and unchanging. He coined the term "Big Bang" to ridicule the idea that the universe had a beginning, as the Big Bang theory posits.
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