Astromeeting Christmas Lecture
Dr. Licia Verde (Institute of Cosmological Sciences, UB–IEEC, Barcelona, Spain)
17 Dicembre 2025
11:30, Auditorium E. Capocci
Abstract:
Despite its spectacular success, the ΛCDM model is ultimately phenomenological: it establishes a robust framework in which some fundamental issues remain unresolved. With observations becoming increasingly precise, it is reasonable to expect that “something’s gotta give” and that the ΛCDM model will show some cracks. The Hubble tension— the discrepancy between the value of the Hubble parameter, when inferred as a global parameter of the standard cosmological model , and when measured directly in the late-time Universe from the redshift-to-distance relation— has been looming for a decade and has been studied extensively. Could it be such a crack? I will give an overview of the status of the Hubble tension and tentatively speculate on why it has persisted thus far.