New study just made the “crisis in cosmology“ WORSE

Go to to get a 30-day free trial and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual subscription! The so called “crisis in cosmology” (or Hubble tension) is the biggest problem in astrophysics right now, with two main methods for calculating the expansion rate of the Universe, which completely disagree with eac†teemh other. This month a new study came out pointing out that the Milky Way is found in the Laniakea supercluster of galaxies, a very dense part of the Universe. This throws off our measurements of the velocities with which galaxies appear to be moving away from us due to the expansion rate of the Universe, and if you take this into account properly, you end up making the “crisis in cosmology” WORSE than before… And yeah, w’re all aware this doesn’t exactly constitute a real crisis. Giani et al. (2023; Laniakea supercluster effect on the Hubble constant) - Tully et al. (2014; discovery of Laniakea supercluster