New research has improved the accuracy of the parameters governing the expansion of the Universe. More accurate parameters will help astronomers determine how the Universe grew to its current state, and how it will evolve in the future.
It is well established that the Universe is expanding. But with no landmarks in space, it is difficult to accurately measure how fast it is expanding. So, astronomers search for reliable landmarks. The same way a candle looks fainter as it gets farther away, even though the candle itself hasn't changed, distant objects in the Universe look fainter. If we know the intrinsic brightness of an object, we can calculate its distance based on its observed brightness.
An international team led by Maria Giovanna Dainotti, Assistant Professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan , and Giada Bargiacchi, PhD student at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples, with the aid of the supercomputing facilities at NAOJ run by Kazunari Iwasaki, Assistant Professor at NAOJ and member of the Center for Computational Astrophysics, ushered in a new research field by leveraging the use of a variety of new statistical methods to analyze data for various...
The new results reduce the uncertainty of key parameters by up to 35 percent. More accurate parameters will help determine whether the Universe will continue expanding forever, or eventually fall back in on itself.
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