{"id":98895,"date":"2019-11-21T22:23:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T06:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-universe-is-expanding-more-rapidly-than-previously-believed"},"modified":"2019-11-21T22:23:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T06:23:52","slug":"the-universe-is-expanding-more-rapidly-than-previously-believed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-universe-is-expanding-more-rapidly-than-previously-believed","title":{"rendered":"The Universe is expanding more rapidly than previously believed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-universe-is-expanding-more-rapidly-than-previously-believed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers believe that new measurements from NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope confirm that the Universe is expanding about 9% faster than expected based on its trajectory seen shortly after the big bang.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the Hubble constant (<em class=\"\">H0) \u2014<\/em> the measure of the current expansion rate of the Universe, named after Edwin Hubble, the man who first observed said expansion \u2014 needs adjustment from its current figure of ~2 \u00d7 10-\u00b9\u2078 s-\u00b9.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Riess, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University, Nobel Laureate, says of the disparity between old calculations and these new findings: \u201cThis mismatch has been growing and has now reached a point that is really impossible to dismiss as a fluke. This is not what we expected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers believe that new measurements from NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope confirm that the Universe is expanding about 9% faster than expected based on its trajectory seen shortly after the big bang. This means that the Hubble constant (H0) \u2014 the measure of the current expansion rate of the Universe, named after Edwin Hubble, the man [\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-98895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98895","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=98895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}