{"id":13806,"date":"2017-01-26T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13806"},"modified":"2017-01-25T21:57:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T02:57:56","slug":"hubble-telescope-sees-faster-than-expected-expansion-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13806","title":{"rendered":"Hubble telescope sees faster than expected expansion of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest cosmic finding with the\u00a0Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Cosmic lenses support finding on
\nfaster than expected expansion of the Universe <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

By using galaxies as giant gravitational lenses, an international group of astronomers using the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made an independent measurement of how fast the Universe is expanding. The newly measured expansion rate for the local Universe is consistent with earlier findings. These are, however, in intriguing disagreement with measurements of the early Universe. This hints at a fundamental problem at the very heart of our understanding of the cosmos.<\/p>\n

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HE0435-1223, located in the centre of this wide-field image, is among the five best lensed quasars discovered to date. The foreground galaxy creates four almost evenly distributed images of the distant quasar around it. [Larger images<\/a>.]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>The\u00a0Hubble constant<\/a> \u2014 the rate at which the Universe is expanding \u2014 is one of the fundamental quantities describing our Universe. A group of astronomers from the H0LiCOW<\/a> collaboration, led by Sherry Suyu (associated with the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics<\/a> in Germany, the ASIAA<\/a> in Taiwan and the Technical University of Munich), used the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and other telescopes [1]<\/a> in space and on the ground to observe five galaxies in order to arrive at an independent measurement of the Hubble constant [2]<\/a>.<\/p>\n