What is the Big Bang and black holes? When did the stars come out? How did the first galactic star islands arise? What will the universal “end of the world” be like? These and many other questions of modern astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology are discussed in a fascinating and popular way, taking into account the latest scientific data obtained on Earth and in space. The book tells the story of the discovery of the expansion of the Universe and the emergence of our world according to the Big Bang scenario; illuminates the modern approach of physics and cosmology to the concepts of space and time, galactic and stellar evolution. This book is the shortest history of our world from the Big Bang to the last black holes and the space-time gap.