{"id":201065,"date":"2024-12-09T13:43:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T19:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/webb-telescopes-largest-study-of-universe-expansion-confirms-challenge-to-cosmic-theory"},"modified":"2024-12-09T13:43:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T19:43:20","slug":"webb-telescopes-largest-study-of-universe-expansion-confirms-challenge-to-cosmic-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/webb-telescopes-largest-study-of-universe-expansion-confirms-challenge-to-cosmic-theory","title":{"rendered":"Webb telescope\u2019s largest study of universe expansion confirms challenge to cosmic theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/webb-telescopes-largest-study-of-universe-expansion-confirms-challenge-to-cosmic-theory2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that a new feature in the universe\u2014not a flaw in telescope measurements\u2014may be behind the decade-long mystery of why the universe is expanding faster today than it did in its infancy billions of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The new data confirms Hubble Space Telescope measurements of distances between <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nearby+stars\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nearby stars<\/a> and galaxies, offering a crucial cross-check to address the mismatch in measurements of the universe\u2019s mysterious expansion. Known as the Hubble tension, the discrepancy remains unexplained even by the best cosmology models.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe discrepancy between the observed expansion rate of the universe and the predictions of the standard model suggests that our understanding of the universe may be incomplete. With two NASA flagship telescopes now confirming each other\u2019s findings, we must take this [Hubble tension] problem very seriously\u2014it\u2019s a challenge but also an incredible opportunity to learn more about our universe,\u201d said Nobel laureate and lead author Adam Riess, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Thomas J. Barber Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that a new feature in the universe\u2014not a flaw in telescope measurements\u2014may be behind the decade-long mystery of why the universe is expanding faster today than it did in its infancy billions of years ago. The new data confirms Hubble Space Telescope measurements of distances between [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201065","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}