{"id":244291,"date":"2026-09-21T01:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/crisis-averted-as-experts-confirm-universes-expansion-is-accelerating"},"modified":"2026-09-21T01:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:02:23","slug":"crisis-averted-as-experts-confirm-universes-expansion-is-accelerating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/crisis-averted-as-experts-confirm-universes-expansion-is-accelerating","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Crisis averted\u2019 as experts confirm universe\u2019s expansion IS accelerating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crisis-averted-as-experts-confirm-universes-expansion-is-accelerating.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our universe\u2019s expansion is still accelerating despite recent claims suggesting otherwise, an international team of astrophysicists say.<\/p>\n<p>They refuted <a href=\"https:\/\/ras.ac.uk\/news-and-press\/research-highlights\/universes-expansion-now-slowing-not-speeding\">a study published last year claiming the growth of the universe is slowing<\/a> and insist there is no flaw in the widely-accepted theory that a mysterious force known as dark energy is driving the expanding cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers, who include two Nobel Laureates and represent institutions worldwide, say the debate that followed last November\u2019s revelations was the result of a scientific misunderstanding rather than a cosmic grenade threatening to blow apart everything we know about the universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our universe\u2019s expansion is still accelerating despite recent claims suggesting otherwise, an international team of astrophysicists say. They refuted a study published last year claiming the growth of the universe is slowing and insist there is no flaw in the widely-accepted theory that a mysterious force known as dark energy is driving the expanding cosmos. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244291","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=244291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}