{"id":177342,"date":"2023-12-03T16:24:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T22:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-new-possible-explanation-for-the-hubble-tension"},"modified":"2023-12-03T16:24:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T22:24:10","slug":"a-new-possible-explanation-for-the-hubble-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-new-possible-explanation-for-the-hubble-tension","title":{"rendered":"A new possible explanation for the Hubble tension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-possible-explanation-for-the-hubble-tension2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The universe is expanding. How fast it does so is described by the so-called Hubble-Lemaitre constant. But there is a dispute about how big this constant actually is: Different measurement methods provide contradictory values.<\/p>\n<p>This so-called \u201cHubble tension\u201d poses a puzzle for cosmologists. Researchers from the Universities of Bonn and St. Andrews are now proposing a new solution: Using an alternative theory of gravity, the discrepancy in the measured values can be easily explained\u2014the Hubble tension disappears. The study has now been published in the <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society<\/i> (<i>MNRAS<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/expansion+of+the+universe\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">expansion of the universe<\/a> causes the galaxies to move away from each other. The speed at which they do this is proportional to the distance between them. For instance, if galaxy A is twice as far away from Earth as galaxy B, its distance from us also grows twice as fast. The US astronomer Edwin Hubble was one of the first to recognize this connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe is expanding. How fast it does so is described by the so-called Hubble-Lemaitre constant. But there is a dispute about how big this constant actually is: Different measurement methods provide contradictory values. This so-called \u201cHubble tension\u201d poses a puzzle for cosmologists. Researchers from the Universities of Bonn and St. Andrews are now proposing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177342","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}