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Evidence for the Big Bang - University of Western Australia
www.uwa.edu.auAbout 380 000 years after the Big Bang the Universe became transparent to light. For the next . several billion years, gravity slowed the expansion of the Universe. About 8 billion years after the Big Bang expansion of the Universe began to accelerate. Cosmologists believe that an effect called ‘dark energy’ is causing the Universe to expand by
15 In Hubble’s shadow: early research on the expansion of ...
www.vub.beresearch on the expansion of the universe Hilmar W. Duerbeck University of Brussels (VUB) Pleinlaan 2 1050 Brussels Belgium Waltraut C. Seitter Muenster University 48149 Muenster Germany Abstract An overview on the progress of theoretical and observational cosmology in the first half of the 20th century is given. We outline the Einstein, de Sitter
ON the EXPANSION of the UNIVERSE - NASA
www.grc.nasa.govdistance from an observer, to a first approximation. This is the same Hubble’s law given earlier for our universe. The term H (= k/ρ in our 2-dimensional analog) represents Hubble’s constant. Hubble’s constant has actually been estimated from observations of distant galaxies in …
The Evolution of the Universe - Western Washington University
fire.biol.wwu.eduJul 14, 2013 · The Expansion of the Universe (1993) As bizarre as it may seem, space itself is expanding—specifically, the vast regions of space between galaxies. According to Einstein, space is not simply emptiness; it's a real, stretchable, flexible thing. The notion that space is expanding is a prediction of Einstein's