New research suggests that a troubling disparity in the rate of expansion of the universe, known as the Hubble constant, may arise from the fact Earth sits in a vast underdense region of the cosmos.

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To destroy enough matter to explain the Hubble tension, black holes would have to merge at an unrealistic rate.

Whatever dark energy is, explanations for it have less wiggle room following a Hubble Space Telescope observation that has refined the measurement of the universe’s ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Birthed from the minds of astronomers Edwin Hubble and Milton Humason, the Hubble constant ...

The question of how fast the universe is expanding continues to confound scientists. Although it might seem like a fairly straightforward issue, the reality is that it has been perplexing the best ...

Combined Webb and Hubble Space Telescope data showing the galaxy NGC 5584, 72 million light-years away. Image: Image NASA, ESA, CSA, Adam G. Riess (JHU, STScI) Image Processing Alyssa Pagan (STScI) ...

Some astronomers think one set of measurements or the other will turn out to be wrong. Others believe that the tension is a hint of deeper problems with the scientific description of the universe, ...

For almost a century, astronomers have been using the Hubble-Lemaitre constant to explain the accelerating expansion of the universe, an intrinsic piece of the puzzle that supports the Big Bang theory ...

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To many cosmologists, the best thing about neutron-star mergers is that these events scream into space an otherwise close-kept secret of the universe. Scientists combined the gravitational and ...

Hubble’s measurements of today’s expansion rate do not match the rate that was expected based on how the Universe appeared shortly after the Big Bang over 13 billion years ago. Using new data from the ...