US EditionA slowly spinning universe could solve the Hubble tension
- A new study suggests that the entire universe might rotate, a concept explored by Szigeti et al. In 2025.
- The Hubble tension, a disagreement in expansion rate measurements, prompted physicists to explore a rotating universe model.
- Researchers developed a model showing the universe rotating once every 500 billion years, impacting space's expansion.
- István Szapudi stated, "Much to our surprise, we found that our model with rotation resolves the paradox."
- This model could resolve the Hubble tension, and future work involves computer simulations and observational searches for cosmic spin.
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New 'Spinning Universe' Theory Could Explain a Decades-Old Cosmological Mystery
The entire universe may be rotating—just like its individual components, from massive galaxies to solar systems and planets—a possibility that could help explain the long-standing “Hubble tension” that has puzzled scientists for years. None of the currently accepted models of the universe account for any overall spin. Instead, they describe it as expanding uniformly in all directions. However, these models run into trouble with the so-called Hub…
An Interesting Solution to the Hubble Tension: The Universe is Slowly Spinning
Everything in the Universe spins. Galaxies, planets, stars, and black holes all rotate, even if just a bit. It comes from the fact that the clouds of scattered gas and dust of the cosmos are never perfectly symmetrical. But the Universe as a whole does not rotate. Some objects spin one way, some another, but add them all up, and the total rotation is zero. At least that's what we've thought. But a new study suggests that the Universe does rotate…
Astronomer finds the universe could be spinning
A new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by researchers including István Szapudi of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy suggests the universe may rotate — just extremely slowly. The finding could help solve one of astronomy's biggest puzzles. "To paraphrase the Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus, who famously said 'Panta Rhei' — everything moves, we thought that perhaps Panta Kykloutai — everyt…
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