Afghanistan, Aug. 2 -- Scientists suggest Earth and the Milky Way may sit inside a vast cosmic bubble, a finding that could help explain discrepancies in measuring the universe's expansion rate.
Astronomers from the Universities of Portsmouth and St Andrews have discovered new evidence suggesting that the Milky Way and Earth may be located inside a massive cosmic void.
The findings, published last week in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, could offer an answer to one of cosmology's most persistent puzzles: the Hubble tension.
This decades-old mystery arises from conflicting measurements of the universe's expansion rate. Depending on how the rate is measured, scientists have long recorded inconsistent results, but thi...