A Huge Cosmology Problem Might Just Have Disappeared

From Sabine Hossenfelder.

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The rate at which the universe is currently expanding is known as the Hubble Rate. In recent years, different measurements have given different results for the Hubble rate, a discrepancy between theory and observation that’s been called the “Hubble tension”. Now, a team of astrophysicists claims the Hubble tension is gone and it’s the fault of supernovae data. Let’s have a look.

Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/11/050/meta

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