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    Observations show that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, such that the velocity at which a distant galaxy recedes from the observer is continuously...
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  • The Omega Point is a theorized future event in which the entirety of the universe spirals toward a final point of unification. The term was invented by...
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    The expansion of the universe is the increase in distance between gravitationally unbound parts of the observable universe with time. It is an intrinsic...
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  • postulated to relate the mass of the neutrino to the dark energy conjectured to be responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe. The acceleron was...
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    Baryon acoustic oscillations (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
    about the nature of dark energy (which causes the accelerating expansion of the universe) by constraining cosmological parameters. The early universe consisted...
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    Dark energy (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
    proposed form of energy that affects the universe on the largest scales. Its primary effect is to drive the accelerating expansion of the universe. It also...
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  • understanding of the universe. Dark energy: What is the cause of the observed accelerating expansion of the universe (the de Sitter phase)? Are the observations...
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    Saul Perlmutter (category Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science)
    providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Since 2021, he has been a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science...
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    The uniformity of the universe, known as the horizon and flatness problems, is explained through cosmic inflation: a phase of accelerated expansion during...
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  • type of matter? Dark energy: What causes the observed accelerating expansion of the universe (the de Sitter phase)? Are the observations showing the accelerating...
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    Big Crunch (redirect from The Big Crunch)
    correct. Instead, astronomical observations show that the expansion of the universe is accelerating rather than being slowed by gravity, suggesting that...
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    Adam Riess (category Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences)
    and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Riess...
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    8 Gly) in length—and form the boundaries between voids. Due to the accelerating expansion of the universe, the individual clusters of gravitationally bound...
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    later the electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions; and the accelerated expansion of the universe due to cosmic inflation. Tiny ripples in the universe...
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  • De Sitter space (category Equations of astronomy)
    serves as one of the simplest mathematical models of the universe consistent with the observed accelerating expansion of the universe. More specifically...
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    reach the Solar System and Earth since the beginning of the cosmological expansion. Assuming the universe is isotropic, the distance to the edge of the observable...
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    matter by accurately measuring the accelerating expansion of the universe. The Korsch-type telescope will measure the shapes of galaxies at varying distances...
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  • that time the accelerating expansion of the universe was not known, which resolves the divergence issue because of the cosmic event horizon. The Hoyle–Narlikar...
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  • : 58  The accelerating expansion of the universe has been attributed to a form of energy called dark energy. Some physicists speculate that a form of dark...
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    Cosmological constant (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
    were accelerating away. Both teams announced this surprising result in 1998. It implied the universe is undergoing accelerating expansion. The cosmological...
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    for the accelerating expansion of the universe. In optics, lambda denotes the grating pitch of a Bragg reflector. In politics, the lambda is the symbol...
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    observed abundances of hydrogen (including deuterium), helium, and lithium; the accelerating expansion of the universe observed in the light from distant...
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    1998, observations of supernovas in distant galaxies have been interpreted as consistent with a universe whose expansion is accelerating. Subsequent cosmological...
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    Present (redirect from The Present Time)
    the universe's Stelliferous Era, after enough time for superclusters to have formed (at about 5 billion years), but before the accelerating expansion...
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    field in the early universe. According to the models of inflation and current observations of the accelerating universe, the concordance models of physical...
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    eventually reaching the Big Freeze and the heat death of the universe. Modern data suggests that the expansion of the universe is accelerating; if this acceleration...
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    Lemaître–Tolman metric (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
    model the expansion of the universe. It has also been used to model a universe which has a fractal distribution of matter to explain the accelerating expansion...
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    hypothesis Accelerating expansion of the universe Lunar Laser Ranging experiment Cosmological constant Footnotes "Newtonian constant of gravitation" is the name...
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  • Chris Hirata (category California Institute of Technology alumni)
    and accelerating expansion of the universe, galaxy clusters and the large-scale structure of the universe (and the formation of these structures, the Reionization...
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    Outer space (redirect from Space/universe)
    and the accelerating expansion of the universe, indicates that space has a non-zero vacuum energy, which is called dark energy. Estimates put the average...
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