Supernovae, an accelerating universe and the cosmological constant

AUTOR(ES)

Kirshner, Robert P.

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

Observations of supernova explosions halfway back to the Big Bang give plausible evidence that the expansion of the universe has been accelerating since that epoch, approximately 8 billion years ago and suggest that energy associated with the vacuum itself may be responsible for the acceleration.

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