Sentence examples for colossal explosion from inspiring English sources

Then as the night wore on the villagers heard a colossal explosion and felt a tremor ripple through their homes.

The Big Bang is the colossal explosion in which most cosmologists believe the universe was born, some 15 billion years ago.

After five days of relative calm, the climactic phase of the eruption began with a colossal explosion that launched a towering column of ash to the edge of space.

Creating such a plasma would fulfill some of scientists' biggest dreams, because it would enable them to study the earliest moments of the Big Bang, the colossal explosion that is believed to have been the birth of the entire universe.

Scientists believe that large amounts of matter at those densities and temperatures last existed a few millionths of a second after the start of the Big Bang, the colossal explosion in which the universe is thought to have been born.

Dr. Carlos Frenk, a 2dF member at the University of Durham in Britain, said the findings seemed to confirm many of the theories of origin, which say that the universe should be smooth on an extremely large scale, a legacy of the nearly featureless soup of elementary particles from which the universe is thought to have emerged in a colossal explosion called the Big Bang.

They are nature's element factories: essentially all of the elements in the periodic table that are heavier than oxygen were formed through nuclear reactions immediately preceding and during these colossal explosions.

Even though the victims are, of course, the designated bad guys, Stallone doesn't offer a scintilla of acknowledgment that they are indeed also people, or that (as in some of the more colossal explosions) there is inevitable collateral damage.

At least 93 residents of the capital, Maputo, were dead a day after colossal explosions at a military armory on the city's edge spewed munitions for miles in every direction, and officials feared the toll would rise.

The colossal explosions, the fierce black and red clouds, the crowds running through the streets, the contradictory, confusing information, had only the feeblest resemblance to the tinny dramas of Skyscraper, Backdraft or Independence Day.

And, finally, in a painful moment that punctuated a summer of disarray, a colossal, lethal explosion at a chemical warehouse in China's third-largest city, Tianjin, turned out to be the result of a familiar recipe of political corruption.