A persistent, nagging problem with the expansion speed of the Universe may not require a rewrite of everything we know about physics. New measurements taken using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Most of the universe is missing. Only 5% of it is normal matter, which makes up all the people, planets and stars we can see; the other 95% consists of mysterious dark matter and dark energy.

It got called the crisis in cosmology. But now astronomers can explain some surprising recent discoveries. Artist illustration of a black hole surrounded by extremely thick clouds of gas and dust.

(via PBS Space Time) Two of the greatest mysteries in cosmology are the nature of dark energy and the apparent conflict in our measurements of the expansion rate of the early versus the modern ...

INDORE, MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA, September 4, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- Today, an article appeared in New York Times (NYT), which highlighted the ‘crisis in cosmology ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first "Einstein zig-zag," an image of one quasar ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) In the past decade, astrophysicists have found a lot of evidence that our large-scale theory for how the universe works has some large-scale problems as well. It has, however ...

There are a growing number of hints that the universe might not have evolved in the way that cosmologists thought. If those hints are confirmed by new sky surveys, it might turn out that dark matter ...

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