James Webb telescope watches ancient supernova replay 3 times — and confirms something is seriously wrong in our understanding of the universe
https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/james-webb-telescope-watches-ancient-supernova-replay-3-times-and-confirms-something-is-seriously-wrong-in-our-understanding-of-the-universe
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putting aside the hubble tension for a second can we just appreciate how fucking cool it is that we can see the same supernova three times because the light has been bent* around a super gravitationally dense object? that’s so awesome.
*yes i know light doesn’t bend it’s spacetime that bends
“Our team’s results are impactful: The Hubble constant value matches other measurements in the local universe, and is somewhat in tension with values obtained when the universe was young,” co-author Brenda Frye, an associate professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona said in a statement.”
So what do the measurements from the opposite of origin show? Is it even more off? Or closer to origin measurements?
When I read there’s a “crisis” in science, I think that there’s some really cool discoveries coming.
Great job, Prof. Frye., U of A, Bear Down.