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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36441219
The Universe may be expanding up to 9% faster than previously thought.
This new assessment comes from the Hubble Space Telescope, which has significantly refined the rate at which nearby galaxies are observed to be moving away from each other.
It reinforces the tension between what we see happening locally and what we would expect from the conditions that existed in the early cosmos.
These have implied a much more sedate trajectory for the recession.