Last year's big bang breakthrough has finally bitten the dust. In March last year, researchers using a telescope called BICEP2 at the South Pole made a splash when they claimed to have discovered primordial gravitational waves, a signal from the very early universe.

Now details of a new analysis of their results have leaked, and they seem to reveal that galactic dust is the likely cause of their observations.

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