The team of Princeton University scientists says they can detect these ultra-weak gravitational waves, which were created just fractions of a second after the Big Bang, SpaceAcademy.org reported. These ripples in space-time are believed to carry information about the universe's earliest moments.
The researchers say that if their experiment is successful, it could help them answer some of the biggest questions in cosmology, such as how galaxies and stars were formed, and how matter and energy were distributed in the early universe.
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