Science
Why the Universe Defies Models
Back in the late ’90s, astronomers watching exploding stars in Chile and Hawaii stumbled on something strange: the universe wasn’t slowing down. It was speeding up. That surprise rewrote the textbooks and earned a Nobel Prize — but it also opened a mystery we still haven’t solved.
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The thinker
Nobel-winning Cosmologist
Adam Riess is a Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist best known for discovering the accelerating expansion of the universe. He’s a professor at Johns Hopkins and leads the SH0ES team, whose precise measurements have exposed cracks in the standard cosmological model.
Based on 118 | Adam Riess on the Expansion of the Universe and a Crisis in Cosmology, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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