Expansion of the universe may not be accelerating after all

In 1998, it was discovered that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, a finding that earned three astronomers the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011, but new research from Oxford University has prompted a rethink of that widely accepted idea. By using a much larger dataset, the team found that the evidence for accelerated expansion doesn't meet the certainty standards required by physicists to declare a discovery.

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