{"id":90000,"date":"2019-04-26T12:02:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T19:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/astronomers-just-detected-the-universe-is-expanding-much-faster-than-it-should-be"},"modified":"2019-04-26T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T19:02:35","slug":"astronomers-just-detected-the-universe-is-expanding-much-faster-than-it-should-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/astronomers-just-detected-the-universe-is-expanding-much-faster-than-it-should-be","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Just Detected The Universe Is Expanding Much Faster Than It Should Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-just-detected-the-universe-is-expanding-much-faster-than-it-should-be2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest measurement of the expansion rate of the Universe is in, and it has confirmed with more certainty than ever that we have a real dilly of a pickle on our hands. Once again, the result has shown that the Universe is expanding much faster than it should be based on the conditions just after the Big Bang.<\/p>\n<p>The Universe\u2019s rate of expansion is called the <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.swin.edu.au\/cosmos\/H\/Hubble+Law\">Hubble Constant<\/a>, and it\u2019s been incredibly tricky to pin down.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/2018-planck-legacy-data-release-cosmic-microwave-background-final\">data from the Planck satellite<\/a> that measured the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cosmic_microwave_background\">cosmic microwave background<\/a> (the conditions of the early Universe just 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the Hubble Constant should be 67.4 kilometres (41.9 miles) per second per megaparsec, with less than 1 percent uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-measurements-of-the-expansion-of-the-universe-confirm-something-is-definitely-awry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest measurement of the expansion rate of the Universe is in, and it has confirmed with more certainty than ever that we have a real dilly of a pickle on our hands. Once again, the result has shown that the Universe is expanding much faster than it should be based on the conditions just [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90000","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}