The Big Bang theory proposes that the universe began from an initial expansion approximately 13.8 billion years ago from a very dense and hot state. Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Edward Hubble's discovery that galaxies are moving away from each other provided evidence supporting this idea. While there was no explosion, there was an expansion from something very small that rapidly expanded the universe without borders, and it continues expanding today with many unanswered questions about what triggered the initial expansion.