The early universe may have been so violent that space-time itself fractured, releasing gravitational waves that astronomers say we may have already detected.
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Scientists observed changes in the signals coming from rapidly-spinning stars called millisecond pulsars that might point to the existence of subtle space-time ripples vibrating throughout the entire universe.