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 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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Omega Point (redirect from Law of Complexity-Consciousness)
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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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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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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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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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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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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Big Bang (redirect from Theories on the origin of the universe)
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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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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Galaxy filament (redirect from Filament of galaxies)
form the boundaries between voids. Due to the accelerating expansion of the universe, the individual clusters of gravitationally bound galaxies that make...
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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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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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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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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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Euclid (spacecraft) (redirect from Dark Universe Explorer)
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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responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe over time. The significant focus of The 4 Percent Universe is on the developments of astronomical...
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Warrick Couch (category Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science)
on the accelerating expansion of the universe, he was a joint winner of the Gruber Prize in Cosmology in 2007 for his role in the discovery of the accelerating...
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Fifth force (section Claims of new particles)
: 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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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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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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Lambda (redirect from 11th letter of the Greek alphabet)
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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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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De Sitter invariant special relativity (section Newton–Hooke: de Sitter special relativity in the limit v ≪ c)
of the structure of general relativity before it was discovered. The discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe has led to a revival of interest...
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Lambda-CDM model (redirect from Standard model of cosmology)
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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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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The timeline of the universe begins with the Big Bang, 13.799 ± 0.021 billion years ago, and follows the formation and subsequent evolution of the Universe...
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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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Alex Filippenko (category Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences)
observations of extragalactic Type Ia supernovae to discover the accelerating universe and its implied existence of dark energy. The discovery was voted the top...
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