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THE WEBB TELESCOPE FURTHER DEEPENS THE BIGGEST CONTROVERSY IN COSMOLOGY

quantamagazine.org17 min read

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An analysis of observations from the James Webb Space Telescope shows conflicting cosmic expansion rates from different types of data. The cosmic expansion rate has been consistently measured to be higher than the theoretical prediction for how fast space should be expanding. However, different teams have come up with different rates of expansion. These discrepancies suggest that the theoretical model of the cosmos might be missing something.