Sentences with phrase «of primordial gravitational waves»

They concluded that there was evidence of primordial gravitational waves.

It's not usually put like this, but the discovery of primordial gravitational waves two weeks ago has given us our first direct glimpse of a period before the big bang.

The apparent detection of primordial gravitational waves by the BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole in March supports the theory

The much celebrated and debated paper reporting the detection of primordial gravitational waves from a split - second after the Big Bang is finally published.

BICEP2's original claim rested on a certain parameter, r, which measures the size of a potential signal of primordial gravitational waves.

In 2014, researchers on the BICEP2 telescope announced they had seen signs of primordial gravitational waves, ripples created not from modern - day black hole collisions but from the big bang itself.

Such tools could map the spectrum of primordial gravitational waves and perhaps distinguish «kinks and bumps» within it that reveal the earliest and most epochal milestones in the universe's evolution.

The first glimpse of primordial gravitational waves is a landmark in our understanding of the universe — but what exactly are these all - important ripples?

The first clear detection of primordial gravitational waves allows us to peer back further than we thought possible - and could unlock many cosmic secrets

QUANTA MAGAZINE: You are a leading critic of the BICEP2 team's claim to have discovered the existence of primordial gravitational waves.

Discovering the presence of primordial gravitational waves opens a window into the kind of physics that happened 10 ^ -35 seconds after the Big Bang at an energy scale that is a trillion times larger than the energy regime that can be probed by the Large Hadron Collider.

The polarization pattern that BICEP2 detected in the CMB could effectively be a snapshot of primordial gravitational waves.

Wilczek reckons we will not have the sensitivity to detect the influence of primordial gravitational waves in the CMB for at least 10 to 15 years, despite new high - resolution maps from the Planck satellite.

Physicists working with the BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole claim to have seen the imprint of primordial gravitational waves on the cosmic microwave background — a claim later retracted

The Planck — BICEP2 analysis confirms that BICEP2 can not claim to have seen evidence of primordial gravitational waves.

Scientists report the possible discovery of primordial gravitational waves, ripples in space - time that carry a record of how the universe began.

In March, the team behind the BICEP2 telescope in Antarctica (pictured) announced that they had seen evidence of primordial gravitational waves.

Despite earlier reports of a possible detection, a joint analysis of data from ESA's Planck satellite and the ground - based BICEP2 and Keck Array experiments has found no conclusive evidence of primordial gravitational waves.

Now, scientists have shown that the swirl pattern touted as evidence of primordial gravitational waves — ripples in space and time dating to the universe's explosive birth — could instead all come from magnetically aligned dust.