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Seeing the 'real' Big Bang through gravitational waves

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New research shows how future detections of primordial gravitational waves can reveal the inner workings of a process called reheating. The reheating process may be the origin of the "real" Big Bang. Inflation happened well before the universe was even 1 second old, and the event lasted less than a billionth of a billionths of a second. But in that extraordinarily brief amount of time, the universe became billions of times larger.

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Seeing the 'real' Big Bang through gravitational waves

The earliest and most momentous epoch in the history of the universe released a flood of gravitational waves, tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time.

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