Retarded gravitational potentials could help to understand and to explain what had happend during the expansion of our universe. They already had been successfully used for explaining the rotational curves of galaxies. No synchrotron would work without considering retarded electromagnetic potentials.
The Lambda-CDM model has to cope with more and more challenges, but it seems that alternative views such as retarded gravitation are not really considered by professional cosmologists. Why is this the case ?