{"id":163792,"date":"2023-05-13T12:23:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T17:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/first-of-its-kind-measurement-of-the-universes-expansion-rate-weighs-in-on-a-longstanding-debate"},"modified":"2023-05-13T12:23:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T17:23:15","slug":"first-of-its-kind-measurement-of-the-universes-expansion-rate-weighs-in-on-a-longstanding-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/first-of-its-kind-measurement-of-the-universes-expansion-rate-weighs-in-on-a-longstanding-debate","title":{"rendered":"First-of-its-kind measurement of the universe\u2019s expansion rate weighs in on a longstanding debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-of-its-kind-measurement-of-the-universes-expansion-rate-weighs-in-on-a-longstanding-debate.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to data from a magnified, multiply imaged supernova, a team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has successfully used a first-of-its-kind technique to measure the expansion rate of the universe. Their data provide insight into a longstanding debate in the field and could help scientists more accurately determine the universe\u2019s age and better understand the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>The work is divided into two papers, respectively published in <i>Science<\/i> and The Astrophysical Journal.<\/p>\n<p>In astronomy, there are two precise measurements of the expansion of the universe, also called the \u201cHubble constant.\u201d One is calculated from nearby observations of supernovae, and the second uses the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cosmic+microwave+background\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cosmic microwave background<\/a>,\u201d or radiation that began to stream freely through the universe shortly after the Big Bang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to data from a magnified, multiply imaged supernova, a team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has successfully used a first-of-its-kind technique to measure the expansion rate of the universe. Their data provide insight into a longstanding debate in the field and could help scientists more accurately determine the universe\u2019s age and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163792","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}