{"id":97782,"date":"2019-10-24T04:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T11:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/a-crisis-in-cosmology-new-data-suggests-the-universe-expanding-more-rapidly-than-believed"},"modified":"2019-10-24T04:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T11:22:31","slug":"a-crisis-in-cosmology-new-data-suggests-the-universe-expanding-more-rapidly-than-believed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/a-crisis-in-cosmology-new-data-suggests-the-universe-expanding-more-rapidly-than-believed","title":{"rendered":"A crisis in cosmology: New data suggests the universe expanding more rapidly than believed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-crisis-in-cosmology-new-data-suggests-the-universe-expanding-more-rapidly-than-believed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A group of astronomers led by University of California, Davis has obtained new data that suggest the universe is expanding more rapidly than predicted.<\/p>\n<p>The study comes on the heels of a hot debate over just how fast the universe is ballooning; measurements thus far are in disagreement.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s new measurement of the Hubble Constant, or the expansion rate of the universe, involved a different method. They used NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in combination with W. M. Keck Observatory\u2019s Adaptive Optics (AO) system to observe three gravitationally-lensed systems. This is the first time ground-based AO technology has been used to obtain the Hubble Constant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of astronomers led by University of California, Davis has obtained new data that suggest the universe is expanding more rapidly than predicted. The study comes on the heels of a hot debate over just how fast the universe is ballooning; measurements thus far are in disagreement. The team\u2019s new measurement of the Hubble [\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-97782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97782","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=97782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}