The observation, via tell -
tale swirls in maps
of relic light from the big bang, represent the first clear detection
of gravitational waves, which were first predicted by Albert Einstein.
Otherwise unknowable details
of some
of the universe's most violent events — from neutron star and binary black hole mergers, to supernova explosions and even the Big Bang itself — should be revealed by the tell -
tale gravitational waves they produce.