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A new University of Southampton study has reaffirmed that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, overturning a 2025 challenge to supernova measurements.
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University of Southampton, Dr. Phil Wiseman, Professor Adam Riess
What
A new University of Southampton study has reaffirmed that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, overturning a 2025 challenge to supernova measurements.
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Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:18:03 GMT · 3h 19m ago
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The study resolved a major cosmic controversy that had suggested dark energy might not exist as currently understood, by re-examining observations of Type Ia supernovae and identifying methodological flaws in the challenging 2025 study.
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This confirmation reinforces confidence in the standard model of cosmology and decades of astronomical observations, asserting that the universe's accelerating expansion remains real, though the nature of dark energy remains an unanswered mystery.
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