Scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are studying new data from the Hubble Space Telescope and report that something strange is happening in our universe.
Observations indicate that other galaxies are moving away from our Milky Way much faster than previously calculated, according to the American ABC network.
Observations show that galaxies are moving away from the Milky Way faster than before – (Image: ABC7)
Nobel laureate Adam Riess, from NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland), stated that the latest update on the Hubble constant and the results of the distance markers for galaxies indicate that the cosmic distance has expanded twice as much as before.
Riess’s team asserts: “The rate of cosmic expansion and the cosmic distance markers, according to the gold standard of telescopes, remain the most accurate measurements.”
Scientists are examining new data from the 32-year-old Hubble Space Telescope to determine how quickly the universe is expanding and how much that expansion is accelerating, through a figure known as the Hubble constant (named after astronomers Edwin P. Hubble and Georges Lemaître, who first attempted to measure the universe in 1929).
The Hubble constant is a very special number. It can provide scientists with insights into the universe from ancient times to the present.
However, scientists have yet to determine the cause of this strange phenomenon in our universe.
NASA officials stated in a press release: “The cause of this anomaly remains a mystery. However, something strange happening may relate to a completely new physical transformation.”
