Telescope discovers something that could change our understanding of the Universe

NASA’s most powerful telescope has discovered something unexpected is happening in the Universe. This may force people to reconsider their basic assumptions on this subject.

Scientists from Johns Hopkins University made extremely precise measurements of the distances between galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). These observations show that the Universe is expanding 8-12% faster than current theories predict.

This suggests that there may be an unknown force explaining why the Universe is expanding faster than it did billions of years ago. It was previously thought that this acceleration was caused by nothing more than a telescope error. But using two years of JWST observations, scientists proved that Hubble’s previous similar findings were not an error.

According to the study’s lead author, Nobel Prize winner Professor Adam Riess, this shows that our understanding of the birth of the Universe may be completely wrong. “This confirms a mysterious discovery by the Hubble Space Telescope that we have been grappling with for a decade: The universe is now expanding faster than our best theories can explain,” he said.

Professor Riess initially used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the distance between a number of different galaxies. This showed that the expansion of the Universe was accelerating at 72.8 km per second per megaparsec, corresponding to a distance of 3.26 million light-years.

Scientists believe that ordinary matter that we can see and interact with makes up only 4% of the entire universe. The remaining 96% consists of dark matter and dark energy, which make up the missing mass in some galaxies. Dark energy may make up 69% of the Universe and may be the force responsible for the expansion of space.

Previously, astronomers made an incredible discovery at the “edge” of the Universe. Read about it here.