Rethinking cosmology: Universe expansion may not be uniform

A map showing the rate of the expansion of the Universe in different directions across the sky based on data from ESA's XMM-Newton, NASA's Chandra and the German-led ROSAT X-ray observatories

Astronomers have assumed for decades that the Universe is expanding at the same rate in all directions. A new study based on data from ESA’s XMM-Newton, NASA’s Chandra and the German-led ROSAT X-ray observatories suggests this key premise of cosmology might be wrong.




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Source: ESA Space News