It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,
and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers;
that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain,
Isaiah 40:22
"Researchers have obtained the most accurate measurement yet of how quickly the universe is expanding — and it's not what they were expecting to find.
The universe is expanding about 8% faster than predicted,
according to a new study published on the preprint server arXiv.
If the results are confirmed, it could transform our understanding of dark matter and dark energy, and completely change our understanding of cosmology itself.
"I think that there is something in the standard cosmological model that we don't understand," Adam Riess, co-discoverer of dark energy and lead author on the new paper, told Nature.
Cosmologists believe dark matter is an invisible material that makes up 27% of the universe, while visible matter only makes up 5%. The fact that we can measure dark matter's gravitational pull suggests that it exists.
Dark energy makes up the other 68% of the universe. It's an unknown force that cosmologists think is accelerating the expansion of the universe.
Cosmologists think dark matter puts the breaks on expansion, while dark energy accelerates it." yahoo
