Scientists have for the first time found telltale ripples in the fabric of space and time, confirming one of Albert Einstein’s strangest, yet most elegant, predictions.
This discovery, announced a few hours ago, comes 100 years after Einstein first theorized gravitational waves.
Einstein himself actually thought a detection might be beyond the reach of technology.
In an interview with the BBC Prof Stephen Hawking said one day we may even see relics of the very early Universe during the Big Bang at some of the most extreme energies possible.