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big crunch
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big crunch [¦big ¦krənch]
(astronomy)
A singularity at the origin of a black hole into which all the matter and radiation in a closed universe would eventually collapse. Also known as gnab gib.


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The Big Bang, therefore, was not a unique event which marked the beginning of time but only part of an infinite sequence of Big Bangs and Big Crunches.
 
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