India, Feb. 27 -- Cosmologist L Sriramkumar said gravitational waves could help scientists understand what happened just fractions of a second after the Big Bang. Speaking at the 32nd Raman Memorial Conference (RMC-2026) held at Savitribai Phule Pune University on Thursday, Sriramkumar said latest observations are opening a new window to study the universe.

SPPU's two-day national conference titled "100 Years of the Schrodinger Equation and its Timeless Impact" brings together students and researchers to discuss modern developments in physics.

During his lecture on "Unravelling the physics of the early universe through gravitational waves", Sriramkumar said that scientists for decades relied on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), fai...