How fast is the universe expanding? The mystery endures

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The rate of expansion is a central part of the quest to discover the origins of the universe, with astrophysicists believing they are getting closer and closer to the exact speed.

Scientists have known for decades that the universe is expanding, but research in the past few years has shaken up calculations on the speed of growth -- raising tricky questions about theories of the cosmos.

The unit of measurement for the Hubble constant is kilometers per second per megaparsec -- which is three million light-years.Now a study, written by researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Astrophysics in Germany and other universities, has described a new method of gauging the universe's accelerating growth.

"We wanted to have another way to validate whether the difference between measurements are real," she told AFP.

 

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