{"id":183379,"date":"2024-02-22T19:27:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T01:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-new-more-accurate-measurement-for-the-clumpiness-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2024-02-22T19:27:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T01:27:41","slug":"a-new-more-accurate-measurement-for-the-clumpiness-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-new-more-accurate-measurement-for-the-clumpiness-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"A New, More Accurate Measurement for the Clumpiness of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-more-accurate-measurement-for-the-clumpiness-of-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cosmologists are wrestling with an interesting question: how much clumpiness does the Universe have? There are competing but not compatible measurements of cosmic clumpiness and that introduces a \u201ctension\u201d between the differing measurements. It involves the amount and distribution of matter in the Universe. However, dark energy and neutrinos are also in the mix. Now, results from a recent large X-ray survey of galaxy clusters may help \u201cease the tension\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The eROSITA X-ray instrument orbiting beyond Earth performed an extensive sky survey of galaxy clusters to measure matter distribution (clumpiness) in the Universe. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics recently shared their analysis of its cosmologically important data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201ceROSITA has now brought cluster evolution measurement as a tool for precision cosmology to the next level,\u201d said Dr. Esra Bulbul (MPE), the lead scientist for eROSITA\u2019s clusters and cosmology team. \u201cThe cosmological parameters that we measure from galaxy clusters are consistent with state-of-the-art cosmic microwave background, showing that the same cosmological model holds from soon after the Big Bang to today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmologists are wrestling with an interesting question: how much clumpiness does the Universe have? There are competing but not compatible measurements of cosmic clumpiness and that introduces a \u201ctension\u201d between the differing measurements. It involves the amount and distribution of matter in the Universe. However, dark energy and neutrinos are also in the mix. Now, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183379","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}