expanding universe
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The theory began to take shape in the 1920s, when Georges Lemaître linked Edwin Hubble’s observations of receding galaxies with Alexander Friedmann’s earlier equations describing an expanding universe.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
“In the quickly expanding universe of cases involving sanctions for the misuse of artificial intelligence, this case is a notorious outlier in both degree and volume,” Clarke wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Radiation in the expanding universe gradually lost energy as its wavelengths stretched with spacetime.
From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2025
Belgian cosmologist and Catholic priest Georges Lemaitre made that connection by realizing that the theory of general relativity described an expanding universe.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2025
The wonder, as Stephen Hawking has noted, is that no one had hit on the idea of the expanding universe before.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
