New research says the was not created by the Big Bang theory but instead by a massive black hole. Scientists say the famous is wrong and instead have provided a new theory.

A leading team of physicists have now suggested a huge gravitational collapse could have generated a large . The team, led by University of Portsmouth's Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation have shared their new theory and believe this is how the universe began.

Within the black hole, matter would have been crunched down before huge amounts of stored energy caused it to bounce back, creating our .

With the new theory comes a new name, the Black Hole Universe.

Researchers say the birth of the universe is the continuation of a cosmic cycle rather than the universe being made from nothing, reports .

Prof Enrique Gaztañaga said: "We've shown that does not have to end in a singularity and found that a collapsing cloud of matter can reach a high-density state and then bounce, rebounding outward into a new expanding phase.

"What emerges on the other side of the bounce is a remarkably like our own. Even more surprisingly, the rebound naturally produces a phase of accelerated expansion driven not by a hypothetical field but by the physics of the bounce itself.

"We now have a fully worked-out solution that shows the bounce is not only possible - it's inevitable under the right conditions."

stands as the most widely accepted explanation for the origin of the universe.

According to this popular theory, the began as an infinitely small, hot, and dense point, which rapidly expanded and continued to stretch over 13.7 billion years.

This initial period of rapid inflation set the stage for the vast and still-growing cosmos we observe today.

that the universe might exist inside a black hole was first proposed in 1972 by Raj Kumar Pathria, an Indian theoretical physicist, but gained little traction.

With the new theory, this could spark a new phase in understanding how the came to be.