{"id":217369,"date":"2025-07-08T02:27:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/is-earth-inside-a-huge-void-sound-of-the-big-bang-hints-at-possible-solution-to-hubble-tension"},"modified":"2025-07-08T02:27:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:27:52","slug":"is-earth-inside-a-huge-void-sound-of-the-big-bang-hints-at-possible-solution-to-hubble-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/is-earth-inside-a-huge-void-sound-of-the-big-bang-hints-at-possible-solution-to-hubble-tension","title":{"rendered":"Is Earth inside a huge void? \u2018Sound of the Big Bang\u2019 hints at possible solution to Hubble tension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-earth-inside-a-huge-void-sound-of-the-big-bang-hints-at-possible-solution-to-hubble-tension.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say.<\/p>\n<p>Their theory is a potential solution to the \u201cHubble tension\u201d and could help confirm the true age of our universe, which is estimated to be around 13.8 billion years old.<\/p>\n<p>The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/conference.astro.dur.ac.uk\/event\/7\/sessions\/90\/#20250709\" target=\"_blank\">research <\/a>\u2014shared at the Royal Astronomical Society\u2019s National Astronomy Meeting (<a href=\"https:\/\/conference.astro.dur.ac.uk\/event\/7\/\" target=\"_blank\">NAM 2025<\/a>) at Durham University\u2014shows that sound waves from the early universe, \u201cessentially the sound of the Big Bang,\u201d support this idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say. Their theory is a potential solution to the \u201cHubble tension\u201d and could help confirm the true age of our universe, which is estimated to be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217369","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=217369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}