New synthesis of astronomical measurements shows Hubble tension is real(noirlab.edu)
49 pointsby anigbrowl10 hours ago2 comments
  • bgoated013 hours ago
    > “This isn’t just a new value of the Hubble constant,” the collaboration notes, “it’s a community-built framework that brings decades of independent distance measurements together, transparently and accessibly.”

    Don't love that I can't read sentences like this without wondering if an LLM was involved.

    • Shitty-kitty21 minutes ago
      Nobody seriously doubts the "tension" anymore. The analysis is good.

      The question is are there systemic errors. Chief among them is whether our ability to infer the distance to objects billions of light years away is truly as good as we think it is.

    • SoftTalker2 hours ago
      Yeah it's sort of an LLM smell but honestly the models learned that pattern because it's common in the training data. People write that way because it sounds like they're revealing something profound.
    • userbinatoran hour ago
      That stuck out at me too, along with the em-dashes above.
  • jiggawatts5 hours ago
    English version: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2611/?nocache=true&