The evidence of gravitational waves from the early Universe found by researchers working at the South Pole has been hailed as a landmark discovery in cosmology, astronomy and physics. The announcement was made by astronomer John Kovac on 17 March at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He and his collaborators used the BICEP2 radio telescope to see the imprint of the gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background, the relic radiation from the early Universe — and specifically in a curly pattern known as the B mode. Here Nature has collected reactions from leading researchers.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 13:46:39 +0000
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