Explore Gravitational Waves: 5 Things You Didn’t Know. Today scientists are expected to announce the discovery of an “echo of the big bang” Update: It’s true!..

Gravitational waves are like ripples in space-time.


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They’re made when two or more really huge objects interact .


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Gravitational waves were also made during the big bang.


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The discovery of primordial gravitational waves would provide evidence for inflation in the early universe.


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You can find them by measuring stretches in space-time.


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We have never detected gravitational waves directly.


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There are several experiments looking for primordial gravitational waves.


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Their discovery will make cosmologists very happy, and almost certainly win someone a Nobel Prize.


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