red shift

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The red shift indicates a change in the electronic structure or optical properties of the material.

From Science Daily • May 3, 2024

Figure 34.5 This graph of red shift versus distance for galaxies shows a linear relationship, with larger red shifts at greater distances, implying an expanding universe.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Another known cause of red shift in light is the source being in a high gravitational field.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

But such gravitational lensing is also useful in verifying that the red shift is proportional to distance.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

So it predicted that the red shift of a galaxy should be directly proportional to its distance from us, exactly as Hubble found.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking