(via Sabine Hossenfelder) We’ve already discussed the crisis in cosmology multiple times on this channel. Recently, that crisis was only made worse thanks to new data from the South Pole Telescope.
(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Cosmology, the branch of physics that deals with the universe, is facing a bit of a crisis right now. Four crises, actually. Let’s take a look at the biggest problems with ...
A giant arc of galaxies appears to stretch across more than 3 billion light-years in the distant universe. If the arc turns out to be real, it would challenge a bedrock assumption of cosmology: that ...