The Cosmic Needle (IMAGE)

Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology

The Cosmic Needle

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Solving the discordant data on the expansion rate of the universe is like trying to thread a 'cosmic needle', where its hole is the H0 value measured today and the thread is brought by the model from the furthest Universe we can observe: the cosmic microwave background.

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NASA/JPL-Caltetch/ESA-Planck Collaboration/SINC

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