Invisible ripples from the birth of the universe change how galaxies group together. Especially strongly for distant objects, as if ancient waves dance on the fabric of the cosmos. A new method will capture the gravitational echo of the Big Bang through galaxy clusters.
🎯 If the gravitational waves from the Big Bang were slightly stronger, galaxies might have arranged themselves not in filaments and walls, but in giant rings and spheres.
🎬 In Carl Sagan's novel 'Contact', the heroine hears a message from another civilization through gravitational waves. Here, the waves themselves are a message from the infancy of the universe.