The Hubble constant describes how fast the universe is expanding, but our measurements won’t line up, which may mean our standard model of the universe is wrong
Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of galaxies looked at in the study
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The expansion of the universe is accelerating, but we don’t know how fast. With new observations, this issue has only got more severe, and now some astronomers are saying that it’s officially a real problem – not one caused by uncertainties in the measurements.
There are two main ways that we measure the the Hubble constant, which describes the expansion of the universe. The first is to examine the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – a …
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