Etymology
English astronomer Fred Hoyle is credited with coining the term “Big Bang” during a talk for a March 1949 BBC Radio broadcast,[37] saying: “These theories were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past.”[38][39]
It is popularly reported that Hoyle, who favored an alternative “steady-state” cosmological model, intended this to be pejorative,[40] but Hoyle explicitly denied this and said it was just a striking image meant to highlight the difference between the two models.[41][42]
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