Scientists believe they have found strong evidence of the Big Bang, the moment when absolutely everything went from something smaller than a pinpoint to the expanding and limitless universe that we barely understand.

A team of Astrophysicists announced that it had detected ripples from gravitational waves in space that must have occurred just fractions of a second after everything came into being.  The signal was even stronger than many scientists had anticipated. 

“This is opening a window on what we believe to be a new regime of physics – the physics of what happened in the first unbelievably tiny fraction of a second in the Universe,” said project leader Professor John Kovac.

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced the breakthrough from their project called “BICEP2”, which used a telescope at the South Pole to make detailed observations of a small patch of sky.  Although the research is going to be highly scrutinized, there are some already talking about the Nobel Prize.

“This is spectacular,” said Professor Marc Kamionkowski of America’s Johns Hopkins University, “I’ve seen the research; the arguments are persuasive, and the scientists involved are among the most careful and conservative people I know.”