A small, seemingly technical assumption baked into the way astronomers standardize Type Ia supernovae may be responsible for the growing tension between different measurements of dark energy. New data ...
Cosmological redshift depends upon a galaxy's distance. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC) In 1929 Edwin Hubble published the first solid evidence that the universe is expanding. Drawing ...
The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to ...