Abell 370 is a distant collection of several hundred galaxies NASA, ESA, and B. Sunnquist and J. Mack (STScI)
We don’t know how clumpy the universe is. A survey of more than 25 million galaxies has found a discrepancy between the two main ways to measure how matter is clustered, suggesting that there is something wrong with the widely accepted standard model of cosmology – our best understanding of the universe.
The work looked at three years of data from the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) programme, based at the Subaru telescope in Japan. Crucial to the finding was an effect…
Article amended on 19 December 2023
We have corrected the name of one of the techniques used to measure S8
