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There is no "center of expansion", that is a common misconception, thinking, wrongly, of the universe as expanding away from a particular location in a pre-existing, static space. Instead, the universe is the same everywhere and expands the same everywhere. Thus the Big Bang happened everywhere equally. That's easier to think about if you imagine running time backwards, with all space contracting equally, so that eventually everything ends up in the same place. That was the Big Bang.
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