Fresh corroboration of the perplexing observation that the universe is expanding more rapidly than expected has scientists pondering the cause - perhaps some unknown factor involving the mysterious cosmic components dark energy and dark matter.
This image released by NASA on July 12, 2022, shows the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula captured on the James Webb Space Telescope.
"Yes, it appears there is something missing in our understanding of the universe," added Riess, a 2011 Nobel laureate in physics for the co-discovery of the universe's accelerating expansion."Our understanding of the universe contains a lot of ignorance about two elements - dark matter and dark energy - and these make up 96 per cent of the universe, so this is no small matter.
The researchers employed three different methods to measure a specific telltale metric - distances from Earth to galaxies where a type of pulsating star called Cepheids have been documented. The Webb and Hubble measurements were in harmony. The Big Bang event 13-14 billion years ago initiated the universe, and it has been expanding ever since. Scientists in 1998 disclosed that this expansion was actually accelerating, with dark energy as the hypothesized reason.
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