Slowly spinning universe could be the answer to disagreement between theory and experiment called “Hubble tension”

Slowly spinning universe could be the answer to disagreement between theory and experiment called “Hubble tension”

The Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, is a spiral galaxy located 31 million light-years away. Credit: NASA. The universe has been growing since the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. But cosmologists can’t agree on how fast it is expanding. A new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests a radical new idea that might resolve this astronomical problem – perhaps the universe is spinning very slowly. For decades, physicists u…