expanding universe

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Relics from the pre-bounce phase — such as smaller black holes — could survive the transition and reappear in our expanding universe.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

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

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

There was no up or down in a finite but expanding universe in which even the vast, burning, dazzling, majestic sun was in a state of progressive decay that would eventually destroy the earth too.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller