The Universe Is Not Expanding Uniformly

Universe Today reports The Universe Is Not Expanding Uniformly.

"A group of researchers have discovered that our particular part of the Universe — out to a distance of 400 million light years — is not expanding uniformly in all directions as expected. To be exact, the expansion is faster in one half of the sky than in the other. 'It's as if, in addition to the expansion, our 'neighbourhood' in the Universe has an extra kick in a certain direction,' says Mike Hudson from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. 'We expected the expansion to become more uniform on increasingly larger scales, but that's not what we found.' If confirmed, their findings will result in a new understanding of the origin of structure in the universe and possible revisions to the standard cosmological model."