Cosmology, in crisis: the Universe is expanding too quickly – Pledge Times

abc

Lean Right

Factuality

Ownership

The speed at which the Universe expands has been facing, for decades, an uncomfortable discrepancy that physicists still cannot explain: it varies according to the method we use to calculate it. On the one hand, the direct observation of nearby objects, such as supernovas, indicates that expansion accelerates at a rate of about 73 km per second per megaparsec (a megaparsec equals 3.2 million light years). On the other hand, the analysis of the C…

Pledge Times

Factuality

Ownership

Cosmology, in crisis: the Universe is expanding too quickly – Pledge Times

For decades, the speed at which the Universe is expanding has faced an uncomfortable discrepancy that physicists still cannot explain: it varies depending on the method we use to calculate it. On the one hand, the direct observation of nearby objects, … as supernovas, indicates that the expansion accelerates at a rate of about 73 km per second per megaparsec (one megaparsec is equivalent to 3.2 million light years). And on the other hand, the an…