Cosmology

Early Dark Energy May Solve Two Biggest Mysteries in Cosmology

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Of all the mysteries facing astronomers and meteorologists today, the “Hubble Controversy” still persists! This term refers to the apparent inconsistency of the expansion of the Universe (aka. the Hubble Constant) when internal measurements are compared to those of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Astronomers hoped that observations of the earliest galaxies in the Universe … Read more

Our knowledge of the world has reached a critical stage

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X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: (Herschel) ESA/NASA/Caltech, (Spitzer) NASA/JPL/Caltech, (WISE) NASA/JPL/Caltech; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Webb ERO Production Team; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major, CC BY Over the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the established field of cosmology. In short, the predictions of the standard universe model appear to be at odds with recent observations. There is … Read more