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The red shift is a Doppler effect which showed that almost all galaxies are moving away from us (or us from them), and that the farther away a galaxy is the faster it is moving.

Logically, if you "move" backwards in time (a thought experiment only) then it fits that the entire universe occupied a smaller space in the past. By calculation; at about 13.7 billion years ago it occupied only a tiny volume (of space) which must have been very hot and very energetic. The "big bang" (which must have been very small and quite silent) is just a descriptive term.

Or the red shift is due to light escaping from a large star...

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