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Astronomers Use a Neutron Star Merger to Measure Cosmic Expansion


Swinburne University of Technology and CSIRO have combined telescope and gravitational wave data in an attempt to unlock the true value of the Universe’s expansion. Existing measurements of the Hubble Constant have split cosmologists for more than a decade

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