The Hubble tension is the observation that redshifts rise more rapidly with distance in the local Universe than predicted in the LCDM standard cosmological paradigm calibrated to fit the pattern of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation from the early Universe. Given the many successes of LCDM elsewhere, might this indicate that we are in a large local void?

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There is after all strong evidence for this in terms of the KBC void (Keenan+ 2013). Not to mention that solutions to the Hubble tension prior to recombination would cause the universe to be younger by almost a billion years, which contradicts the ages of the oldest stars and cosmic chronometers (Arxiv:2412.13045). What do people think of the idea that outflow from a local void is responsible for the Hubble tension?

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