{"id":124118,"date":"2021-06-22T12:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T19:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/an-inconstant-hubble-constant-new-research-suggests-fix-to-cosmological-cornerstone"},"modified":"2021-06-22T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T19:22:19","slug":"an-inconstant-hubble-constant-new-research-suggests-fix-to-cosmological-cornerstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/an-inconstant-hubble-constant-new-research-suggests-fix-to-cosmological-cornerstone","title":{"rendered":"An Inconstant Hubble Constant? New Research Suggests Fix to Cosmological Cornerstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-inconstant-hubble-constant-new-research-suggests-fix-to-cosmological-cornerstone2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 90 years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble observed the first hint of the rate at which the universe expands, called the Hubble constant.<\/p>\n<p>Almost immediately, astronomers began arguing about the actual value of this constant, and over time, realized that there was a discrepancy in this number between early universe observations and late universe observations.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the universe\u2019s existence, light moved through plasma \u2014 there were no stars yet \u2014 and from oscillations similar to sound waves created by this, scientists deduced that the Hubble constant was about 67. This means the universe expands about 67 kilometers per second faster every 3.26 million light-years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 90 years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble observed the first hint of the rate at which the universe expands, called the Hubble constant. Almost immediately, astronomers began arguing about the actual value of this constant, and over time, realized that there was a discrepancy in this number between early universe observations and late universe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}