Space Itself May Have Created Galaxies

According to new research, the earliest seeds of structures may have been laid down by gravitational waves sloshing around in the infant universe.Cosmologists strongly suspect that the extremely early universe underwent a period of exceptionally rapid expansion. Known as inflation, this event expanded the universe by a factor of at least 10^60 in less than a second. Powering this event was a new ingredient in the cosmos known as the inflaton, a strange quantum field that ramped up, drove inflati