The universe is expanding faster than challenging Einstein's theory of relativity

The universe is expanding 10% faster than previously anticipated, questioning whether Albert Einstein's relativity theory is accurate or not?

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According to the Telegraph, NASA and the European Space Agency published this discovery after using the Hubble space telescope to measure the distance to stars in 19 galaxies outside the Milky Milky Way. Way.

The expansion rate is inconsistent with the predictions based on radiation measurements left after the Big Bang (which created the universe about 13.8 billion years ago).

The universe expands faster, increasing the prospect of Einstein's general theory of relativity.

This discovery involves hypotheses about what fills the rest of the universe, about 95%, does not emit light and has no radiation. One hypothesis is that the universe has unknown atomic subatomic particles, similar to neutrinos, moving at approximately the same speed, about 186,000 miles per second. Another hypothesis is that "dark energy" , the gravitational force introduced in 1998, could push galaxies farther apart than originally estimated.

The main author of the new study, Adam Riess, said: "You start drawing from two points and you anticipate meeting in the middle if all your lines and calculations are correct." "But the result is not meeting in the middle and we want to know why?".

"This may be an important clue to understanding the parts that do not emit light up to 95% in the universe, such as dark energy, dark matter and dark radiation ," Riess said.

The physicist Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland (USA) shared the 2011 Nobel Physics Prize with the discovery that the expansion rate of the universe is increasing.

Riess and the scientists in the team calculated the rate of cosmic expansion by measuring the distance to a particular star, called the Cepheid cyclic variable , in 19 galaxies outside the Milky Milky Way. Riess and colleagues investigated how the star's pulse speed relates to their brightness, and in turn uses it to measure their distance.

NASA said: The faster expansion of the universe increased the prospect of Einstein's general theory of relativity, which is a mathematical basis for understanding the mechanism of mass formation in interactions between matter, reducing accuracy.