The Universe was not concentrated into a point at the time of the Big
Bang. But the observable Universe was concentrated into a
point. The distinction between the whole Universe and the part of it
that we can see is important. In the figure below, two views of the
Universe are shown: on the left for 1 Gyr after the Big Bang, and on
the right the current Universe 13 Gyr after the Big Bang (assuming that
the Hubble constant is Ho = 50 km/sec/Mpc and the Universe
has the critical density.)
Note that the black dots represent galaxies, and the galaxies do not expand even though the separation between galaxies grows with time.
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