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The $\Lambda$CDM model provides a good fit to most astronomical observations but harbors large areas of phenomenology and ignorance. With the improvements in the precision and number of observations, discrepancies between key cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Jian-Ping Hu , Fa-Yin Wang

We review arguably the simplest solution for the Hubble tension -- the possibility that we live in a void. In this scenario, the local Hubble constant $H_0$ is higher than the global value, thus potentially explaining why $H_0$ measured…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Dragan Huterer , Hao-Yi Wu

The inconsistency between the locally inferred Hubble constant and the value inferred from the cosmic microwave background assuming the $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model has persisted, turning into an important problem. An emergent underlying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Indranil Banik , Harry Desmond , Vasileios Kalaitzidis , Sergij Mazurenko

In the standard cosmological model, the dimming of distant Type Ia supernovae is explained by invoking the existence of repulsive `dark energy' which is causing the Hubble expansion to accelerate. However this may be an artifact of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-22 Seshadri Nadathur , Subir Sarkar

The $\Lambda$ cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM) standard cosmological model is in severe tension with several cosmological observations. Foremost is the Hubble tension, which exceeds $5\sigma$ confidence. Galaxy number counts show the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Sergij Mazurenko , Indranil Banik , Pavel Kroupa , Moritz Haslbauer

Several observational studies suggest that the local few hundred Mpc around the Local Group are significantly underdense based on source number counts in redshift space across much of the electromagnetic spectrum, particularly in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Richard Stiskalek , Harry Desmond , Indranil Banik

We wish to investigate whether there is an extension to the base $\Lambda$CDM cosmology that can resolve the tension between the Planck observation of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies and the local measurement of the Hubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-28 Rui-Yun Guo , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

$\Lambda$CDM provides a leading framework in the interpretation of modern cosmology. Nevertheless, the scientific community still struggles with many open problems in cosmology. Among the most noticeable ones, the tension in the Hubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-09 B. De Simone , M. H. P. M. van Putten , M. G. Dainotti , G. Lambiase

The Hubble constant $H_0$ tension has emerged as the most serious crisis in modern cosmology, potentially indicating that the $\Lambda$CDM model may not describe our universe accurately. In this paper, we establish a new,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-26 Yang Liu , Bao Wang , Hongwei Yu , Puxun Wu

The Hubble tension has proven to be stubbornly persistent, despite widespread efforts to relax it. As a possible resolution of this problem we propose a radical alternative to the way in which cosmological models are viewed. Specifically,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-02 Timothy Clifton , Neil Hyatt

This study aims to elucidate the tension in the Hubble constant ($H_0$), a key metric in cosmology representing the universe's expansion rate. Conflicting results from independent measurements such as the Planck satellite mission and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-01 David Camarena , Valerio Marra

The Hubble constant ($H_0$) tension is one of the major open problems in modern cosmology. This tension is the discrepancy, ranging from 4 to 6 $\sigma$, between the $H_0$ value estimated locally with the combination of Supernovae Ia (SNe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-26 Maria Dainotti , Biagio De Simone , Giovanni Montani , Tiziano Schiavone , Gaetano Lambiase

We review a subset of the current tensions affecting the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model, emphasizing the role of chronic systematics and significance inflation in shaping their interpretation. As a unifying framework, we consider…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-02 Valerio Marra

The considerable difference between early and late universe measurements of the Hubble constant, called the Hubble tension, poses a potential challenge to the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model. We examine an interacting dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Yismaw Wassie Ambelu , Amare Abebe , Solomon Belay Tessema , Shambel Sahlu

An alternative to the postulate of dark energy required to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe is to adopt an inhomogeneous cosmological model to explain the supernovae data without dark energy. We adopt a void cosmology…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-02 J. W. Moffat

The Hubble tension seems to be a crisis with $\sim5\sigma$ discrepancy between the most recent local distance ladder measurement from type Ia supernovae calibrated by Cepheids and the global fitting constraint from the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-19 Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Shao-Jiang Wang , Wang-Wei Yu , Yong Zhou

The standard model of modern cosmology might be cracked by the recent persistent hot debate on the Hubble-constant ($H_0$) tension, which manifests itself as the sound-horizon ($r_s$) tension or absolute-magnitude ($M_B$) tension if deeming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-12 Lu Huang , Shao-Jiang Wang , Wang-Wei Yu

For precision cosmological studies it is important to know the local properties of the reference point from which we observe the Universe. Particularly for the determination of the Hubble constant with low-redshift distance indicators, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-25 Hans Boehringer , Gayoung Chon , Chris A. Collins

The standard model of cosmology, the $\Lambda$CDM model, describes the evolution of the Universe since the Big Bang with just a few parameters, six in its basic form. Despite being the simplest model, direct late-time measurements of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Lavinia Heisenberg , Hector Villarrubia-Rojo

A simple and minimal extension of the standard cosmological $\Lambda$CDM model in which dark matter experiences an additional long-range scalar interaction is demonstrated to alleviate the long lasting Hubble-tension while letting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-08 Cyril Pitrou , Jean-Philippe Uzan