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Ben Turner

'Our model of cosmology might be broken': New study reveals the universe is expanding too fast for physics to explain

A Hubble Space telescope image of the Coma cluster.

The Hubble tension just got tenser — with new measurements revealing that the universe is expanding faster than our current understanding of physics can explain.

Over the past decade, cosmology has been embroiled in a growing crisis. Fuelling it are observations, first made by the Hubble Space Telescope and later by the James Webb Space Telescope, that the universe is expanding at different rates depending on where astronomers look.

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