We have observational evidence that the observable universe is expanding and therefore appears to have “exploded” from the big bang. The most compelling hypothesis for what happened before was the big crunch and part of a theory called the big bounce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bounce
Like a balloon that’s repeatedly blown up, then thinks, then blown up again.
Obviously, we have no observational evidence of what happened before, but we do know that gravity “should” be attracting matter to other matter.
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