Scientists now know where the growth of the stars, planets, and galaxies in the universe started from.
The new information shows scientists exactly what happened less than a second following the Big Bang Theory 14 million years ago Discovery News reported.
Scientists previously could not validate information about gravitational waves which are thought to have formed during the explosion, and then helped when the universe was created. The idea was also pertaining to Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity Discovery News reported.
"This detection is cosmology's missing link," Marc Kamionkowski, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University said in a statement at a webcast press conference Monday.
The idea was thought of by Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity Discovery News reported.
"It's something that we thought should be there, but we weren't really sure. It has been eagerly sought now for close to two decades," Kamionkowski said in the statement.
"This is not something that's just a home run, but a grand slam. It's the smoking gun for inflation. It hints at unification of the fundamental forces at energies 10 trillions of times higher than those accessible at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN," Kamionkowski said in the statement.
"These results are as extraordinary as they get, and they will require the most extraordinary scrutiny," Kamionkowski said in the statement.
"If these results hold up ... then we've learned only that inflation has sent us a telegram, encoded on gravitational waves and transcribed on the cosmic microwave background sky. It will be essential in the years to come to follow through with more detailed and precise measurements to infer fully what this telegram is telling us," Kamionkowski said in the statement.
Scientists also appear to have found more than what they had initially set out to find.
"This has been like looking for a needle in a haystack, but instead we found a crowbar," Clem Pryke one of the leaders of the team of the University of Minnesota told Discovery News.
