Evidence for Universe Inflation Theory May Lurk in New Data

At first, there was nothing — complete and utter emptiness. Zero energy and zero matter.

And then, out of this nothingness, the universe was born. Tiny, but extremely dense and packed with energy. And then, within a miniscule fraction of a second, it rapidly grew in size — inflated — by at least a factor of 10raised to the 25th power.