BBC Horizon - Aftershock The Hunt for Gravitational Waves (2015)

Horizon travels to the South Pole to tell the inside story of the greatest scientific quest of our time.

In March 2014, a team of astronomers stunned the scientific world when they announced that their BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole had possibly detected a signal of “gravitational waves” from the early universe. This is the inside story of the hunt for gravitational waves from the beginning of time. How the BICEP2 team came close to making one of the greatest discoveries of the century – and what happened when it all began to unravel…

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