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Distorted Sound of the Early Universe Suggests We Are Living In a Giant Void


A new study analyzing distorted sound waves from the early universe suggests we may live in a massive cosmic void "with roughly 20% lower than the average density of matter," writes Indranil Banik in an article for The Conversation. "Not every physicist is convinced that this is the case. But our re...

A new study analyzing distorted sound waves from the early universe suggests we may live in a massive cosmic void"with roughly 20% lower than the average density of matter," writes Indranil Banik in an article for The Conversation. But our recent paper analyzing distorted sounds from the early universe, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, strongly backs up the idea." Slashdot reader alternative_right shares an excerpt from the report: My colleagues and I previously argued that the Hubble tension might be due to our location within a large void.

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