A small, seemingly technical assumption baked into the way astronomers standardize Type Ia supernovae may be responsible for the growing tension between different measurements of dark energy. New data ...
The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to ...
Cosmological redshift depends upon a galaxy's distance. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC) In 1929 Edwin Hubble published the first solid evidence that the universe is expanding. Drawing ...
Scientists know very little about the mysterious force dubbed “Dark Energy” that seems to be quickening the expansion of the universe but, according to LSU Physics and Astronomy Associate Professor ...