March 17, 2014
Courtesy of the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics
and World Science staff
Courtesy of the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics
and World Science staff
Astronomers say they have detected “ripples” in space and time caused by a process in which our universe expanded out of control during its first fleeting fraction of a second.
The process is said to have begun almost 14 billion years ago during the Big Bang, an explosive event that gave birth to the universe. In an unimaginably small amount of time, the theory goes, the universe stretched to be far bigger than what our best telescopes would be able to see.
The process is said to have begun almost 14 billion years ago during the Big Bang, an explosive event that gave birth to the universe. In an unimaginably small amount of time, the theory goes, the universe stretched to be far bigger than what our best telescopes would be able to see.
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