{"id":89962,"date":"2019-04-25T11:44:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T18:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/new-hubble-measurements-confirm-universe-is-expanding-at-a-faster-rate"},"modified":"2019-04-25T11:44:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T18:44:26","slug":"new-hubble-measurements-confirm-universe-is-expanding-at-a-faster-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/new-hubble-measurements-confirm-universe-is-expanding-at-a-faster-rate","title":{"rendered":"New Hubble Measurements Confirm Universe Is Expanding at a Faster Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lIrompAWYEk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>New measurements from NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope confirm that the universe is expanding roughly 9 percent faster than expected based on its trajectory observed shortly after the Big Bang, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/hubble-space-telescope-observes-rare-self-destructing-asteroid-1780598\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hubble Space Telescope<\/a> measurements, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1903.07603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which were published in the <em>Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/em> on Thursday<\/a>, minimize the chances that the disparity is an accident from 1 in 3,000 to only 1 in 100,000 and suggest new physics might be needed to better comprehend the cosmos, <a href=\"https:\/\/releases.jhu.edu\/2019\/04\/25\/new-hubble-measurements-confirm-universe-is-outpacing-all-expectations-of-its-expansion-rate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said a Johns Hopkins University press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/new-hubble-measurements-confirm-universe-is-expanding-at-a-faster-rate-1784498\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New measurements from NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope confirm that the universe is expanding roughly 9 percent faster than expected based on its trajectory observed shortly after the Big Bang, according to a new study. The Hubble Space Telescope measurements, which were published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters on Thursday, minimize the chances that the disparity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89962","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}