Astronomy / Space An Unexpected New Measurement of The Universe Suggests We Need to Update Our Physics

For the first time, astronomers have used supermassive black holes from just after the Big Bang to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. Now, we have a bigger mystery on our hands than the answer this effort provided.
It turns out the Universe is growing faster than expected. This could mean that the dark energy thought to drive the acceleration of this expansion, also sometimes interpreted as the cosmological constant described by Albert Einstein, is not so cosmologically constant after all.

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-un...ught-it-might-take-new-physics-can-explain-it
 
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