The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controversy in Cosmology – Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org Illuminating science Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:10:47 -0400 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controversy in Cosmology https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-webb-telescope-further-deepens-the-biggest-controversy-in-cosmology-20240813/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-webb-telescope-further-deepens-the-biggest-controversy-in-cosmology-20240813/#respond Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:17:15 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=139758 The post The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controversy in Cosmology first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Nearly a century ago, Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is getting larger. Modern measurements of how fast it is expanding disagree, however, suggesting that our understanding of the laws of physics might be off. Everyone expected the sharp vision of the James Webb Space Telescope to bring the answer into focus. But a long-awaited analysis of the telescope’s observations released late...

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