Even Einstein was reluctant to endorse this extension of his theory of general relativity. In 1929 at the Mt. Wilson Observatory in California, Edwin Hubble discovered that galaxies were moving ...

Hubble's discovery of expanding galaxies confirmed the universe's vastness, laying the foundation for the Big Bang theory and ...

Combining different pieces from Big Bang cosmology could help explain ... of the universe’s biggest outstanding problems. Since Edwin Hubble realized the universe is always expanding nearly ...

The idea that the universe is expanding was first proposed by Edwin Hubble in the late 1920s and ... Lemaître to propose the ...

Edwin Powell Hubble is renowned for determining that ... and confirmation of the big bang theory. Hubble calculated it to be about 2 billion years ago, but more recent estimates have revised ...

which led to the development of the Big Bang theory—one of the cornerstones of modern cosmology. Since that time, many astronomers—including some Carnegie luminaries—have honed in on a definitive ...

On January 29, 1931, the world’s premier physicist, Albert Einstein, and its foremost astronomer, Edwin Hubble ... poetic scenario arose today’s big bang. Many were appalled by this concept.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Circa 1945: Astronomer Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble sitting in a chair at a desk reading a journal. A staff member at Mt. Wilson ...

The Hubble constant is one of the most important numbers in cosmology because it tells us how fast the universe is expanding, which can be used to determine the age of the universe and its history. It ...

It wasn't until 1949 that the term "big bang" came into fashion. This was a relief to Edwin Hubble's contemporary ... He was partly right in that Einstein's theory of special relativity explained ...

From Arizona’s Lowell Observatory, where the evidence Edwin Hubble used to formulate the Big Bang Theory was collected, to the Green Bank National Radio Observatory in West Virginia, home of ...