{"id":211578,"date":"2025-04-16T17:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/a-slowly-spinning-universe-could-solve-the-hubble-tension"},"modified":"2025-04-16T17:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:10:55","slug":"a-slowly-spinning-universe-could-solve-the-hubble-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/a-slowly-spinning-universe-could-solve-the-hubble-tension","title":{"rendered":"A slowly spinning universe could solve the Hubble tension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-slowly-spinning-universe-could-solve-the-hubble-tension.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study in <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society<\/i> by researchers including Istv\u00e1n Szapudi of the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa Institute for Astronomy <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mnras\/article\/538\/4\/3038\/8090496\" target=\"_blank\">suggests the universe may rotate <\/a>\u2014just extremely slowly. The finding could help solve one of astronomy\u2019s biggest puzzles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo paraphrase the Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus, who famously said \u2018panta rhei\u2019 (everything moves), we thought that perhaps panta kykloutai\u2014everything turns,\u201d said Szapudi.<\/p>\n<p>Current models say the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/universe\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">universe<\/a> expands evenly in all directions, with no sign of rotation. This idea fits most of what astronomers observe. But it doesn\u2019t explain the so-called Hubble tension\u2014a long-standing disagreement between two ways of measuring how fast the universe is expanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by researchers including Istv\u00e1n Szapudi of the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa Institute for Astronomy suggests the universe may rotate \u2014just extremely slowly. The finding could help solve one of astronomy\u2019s biggest puzzles. \u201cTo paraphrase the Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus, who famously said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211578","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=211578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}