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Astronomers Use a Neutron Star Merger to Measure Cosmic Expansion - Universe Today

By Matthew Williams

Astronomers Use a Neutron Star Merger to Measure Cosmic Expansion - Universe Today

Swinburne University of Technology and CSIRO have combined telescope and gravitational wave data in an attempt to unlock the true value of the Universe's expansion. Existing measurements of the Hubble Constant have split cosmologists for more than a decade.

For roughly a century, scientists have known that our Universe is in a constant state of expansion. Known as the Hubble-Lemaitre Constant, in honor of the two astronomers who demonstrated it, this la… [+5010 chars]

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