Scientists have found the first direct evidence that the universe expanded incredibly quickly in the microseconds after the Big Bang.
This is ground-breaking and Nobel-Prize-worthy research, if it is confirmed by other researchers.
They found these signatures of cosmic inflation are gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background radiation of our universe. Gravitational waves created by the Big Bang rippled through our infant universe during an explosive period of growth called inflation — when the universe expanded by 100 trillion trillion times, in less than the blink of an eye.