While the measurements of the Hubble constant from the local distance ladder and the cosmic microwave background radiation appear to disagree, given a sufficient number of localized detections, gravitational waves may possibly shed light on the tension.
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Chen, HY. The mystery of the cosmic ages. Nat Astron 3, 384–385 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0776-1
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