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    Hubble's law, also known as the Hubble–Lemaître law, is the observation in physical cosmology that galaxies are moving away from Earth at speeds proportional...
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    Hubble confirmed in 1929 that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from Earth, a behavior that became known as Hubble's law...
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    the notion of an expanding universe is known as Hubble's law, published in work by physicist Edwin Hubble in 1929, which discerned that galaxies are moving...
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    proof that the universe was expanding and was not a static object. After Hubble's discovery was published, Einstein abandoned the cosmological constant....
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    galaxies. The ratio between these quantities gives the Hubble rate, in accordance with Hubble's law. Typically, the distance is measured using a standard...
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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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    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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    with the formulation of his eponymous Hubble's law. Milton Humason worked on those observations with Hubble. These observations corroborated Alexander...
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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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  • emitted by the object, known as the object's cosmological redshift. Hubble's law is the relationship between a galaxy's distance and its recessional velocity...
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    expanding away faster than the speed of light, at rates estimated by Hubble's law. The expansion rate appears to be accelerating, which dark energy was...
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    observed redshifts of the galaxies in the cluster. The deviation from the Hubble's law relationship between distance and redshift is altered, and this leads...
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    as "Hubble's law", but in 2018 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) adopted a resolution recommending that it be referred to as the "Hubble-Lemaître...
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  • galaxy types Hubble's law, a statement in physical cosmology Hubble (crater), a lunar crater 2069 Hubble, a main-belt asteroid C/1937 P1 (Hubble), a long-period...
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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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  • never reach us in a finite amount of time. The Hubble velocity of an object is given by Hubble's law, v = x H . {\displaystyle v=xH.} Replacing v {\displaystyle...
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    their distance from Earth. This fact is now known as Hubble's law, though the numerical factor Hubble found relating recessional velocity and distance was...
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  • literally. Benford's law Hilt's law Stigler's law of eponymy Goodhart's law Hubble's law Titius–Bode law Dermott's law Amdahl's law (maximum possible speed-up...
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    The actual measured velocity is the sum of the velocity predicted by Hubble's law plus a possible small velocity flowing in a common direction. Very large...
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    universe, this gives a nearly linear distance–redshift relation due to Hubble's law. At larger distances, since the expansion rate of the universe has changed...
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    universe. Hubble later used Leavitt's Law, together with galactic redshifts, to establish that the universe is expanding (see Hubble's law). Henrietta...
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    provide measurements of the Hubble parameter and angular diameter distance, respectively. The angular diameter distance and Hubble parameter can include different...
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    redshifts of the galaxies due to the expansion of the universe according to Hubble's law. A summarized timeline of important events in the field of cosmic voids...
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    of the universe, in contrast to other methods that typically involve Hubble's law and the age of the oldest stars in globular clusters. It is possible...
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    The Doppler effect and Hubble's law can be combined to form the equation z = v Hubble c {\displaystyle z={\frac {v_{\text{Hubble}}}{c}}} , where c is the...
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    is receding from us. The relationship is roughly linear, according to Hubble's law. It is relatively easy to measure redshift, but finding the distance...
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    to universes described by the FLRW metric, a de Sitter universe has a Hubble Law that is not only consistent through all space, but also through all time...
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    constant characterizing the "resistance of the space". To correspond to Hubble's law, the constant R 0 {\displaystyle R_{0}} must be several gigaparsecs....
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    {1-\Omega _{\mathrm {m} }}}}}} where w is defined above, H0 is Hubble's constant and Ωm is the present value of the density of all the matter in...
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    physical laws and physical constants. In regard to configurations such as the distribution of matter, almost all will differ from our Hubble volume. However...
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