expanding universe

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The theory seemed to predict an expanding universe, yet astronomers at the time believed that our cosmos was static: that space had a fixed, unchanging size.

From Scientific American

Thought to be the most abundant galaxy type during the first several hundred million years after the big bang, when the expanding universe was smaller and denser than it is now, dwarf galaxies must have been progenitors of the bigger objects we see today.

From Scientific American

"The signal was in excellent agreement with predictions on paper, but extending those predictions to millions, or billions of years? Matching that model of black holes to our expanding universe? It wasn't at all clear how to do that."

From Salon

Public and private experiment in the Cold War’s suddenly urgent “space race” was rapidly opening up new perceptions of the world and its place in the expanding universe — including inquisitiveness about the nature of perception itself.

From Los Angeles Times

A central part of the updated theory has to do with dark energy, a mysterious, not-fully-understood aspect of the universe that is thought to be the driving force behind our expanding universe.

From Salon