Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have added new weight to one of the most perplexing problems in cosmology: the Hubble Tension. This issue, which describes the discrepancy ...

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For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with ...

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For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with ...