Scientists may have discovered a new way to measure the universe's rate of expansion and it relies on two black holes colliding.
, and they could finally give us a more stable way to measure how fast the universe is expanding.
The universe continues to expand, and new stars are born in nebulas like the Orion Nebula. Image source: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Bally Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç Aside from telling us how the universe is expanding, knowing the accelerated expansion rate could also tell us more about the early universe. James Webb recently discovered the, but we still don’t know much about how those galaxies formed in the first place. Or even how the universe expanded from the Big Bang.
It’s the hope that measuring the ripples in spacetime created by colliding black holes will provide more data for scientists to look at. And, because equipment like the has become so sophisticated, we may one day be able to ascertain the universe’s expansion rate, what is fueling that expansion, and even when, if ever, it will slow down.Joshua Hawkins fell in love with writing and technology at a young age. Eventually he decided to combine the two and started writing about video games, the latest tech, and all the cool gadgets he could find.
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