Universe Is Expanding Faster Than What Is Expected, According To Astronomers

Universe is expanding faster than what astronomers could ever imagine, that also makes the Theory of Relativity slightly wrong.

An amazing discovery astronomers just found out: the universe is expanding faster, having 5 to 9 per cent faster than predicted, According to the European Space Agency and NASA.

Alex Filippenko, Berkeley astronomer from University of California, said: “Maybe the universe is tricking us,”

The predicted expansion rate of the universe doesn’t match based on the remnant radiation measurements, based on the Big Bang theory, that started the universe almost 14 billion years ago.

One possible reason is that the universe has unidentified sub-atomic particles that is similar with neutrinos, which is almost the same speed with light – around 186,000 miles per second.

“Dark energy”, is a mysterious and anti-gravity force that was discovered in 1998, might be pushing galaxies away, from each other.

Adam Riess, lead author and physicist, said: “This may be an important clue to understanding those parts of the universe that make up 95 percent of everything and that don’t emit light, such as dark energy, dark matter and dark radiation,”

Riess, is part of the discovery of the expansion of universe, being one of the winners of the Nobel Prize in 2011.

Because of this unexpected discovery, Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, can be slightly wrong, according to NASA.

The discovery was made by building cosmic yardstick for calculating the distances, made by Riess and his colleagues. Using Hubble Space Telescope in measuring a particular star, the Cepheid variables, nineteen galaxies farther than the Milky Way galaxy.

This surprising news will be published in an article of The Astrophysical Journal.

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