JWST Made a Cosmological Crisis Worse

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Astronomers have two main ways to calculate how fast the universe is expanding. Unfortunately, they don’t agree with one another. The JWST was supposed to help solve this discrepancy, known as “The Hubble Tension” or “The Crisis in Cosmology”. It may just have made it worse.

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