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    visible spectrum. The discovery of Hubble's law is attributed to Edwin Hubble's work published in 1929. Hubble's law is considered the first observational...
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    distances. Hubble provided evidence that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from Earth, a property now known as Hubble's law, although...
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    and H 0 {\displaystyle H_{0}} is Hubble's constant, measured to be 70.4+1.3 −1.4 km/s/Mpc by the WMAP. Hubble's law implies that the universe is uniformly...
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    the universe was expanding and was not a static object. After publishing Hubble's discovery, Einstein completely abandoned the cosmological constant. In...
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    and always have been, receding from us at superluminal speeds. Hubble's law Hubble horizon Particle horizon Edward Robert Harrison (2003). Masks of...
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  • slope of about 500 km/s/Mpc. This correlation would come to be known as Hubble's law and would serve as the observational foundation for the expanding universe...
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    Edwin Hubble. He first derived "Hubble's law", now called the Hubble–Lemaître law by the IAU, and published the first estimation of the Hubble constant...
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    itself was originally formalised by Father Georges Lemaître in 1927. Hubble's Law of the expansion of the universe provided foundational support for the...
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  • original discoverer. Examples include Hubble's law, which was derived by Georges Lemaître two years before Edwin Hubble; the Pythagorean theorem, which was...
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    them with the formulation of his eponymous Hubble's law. Milton Humason worked on these observations with Hubble. These observations corroborated Alexander...
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