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2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". https
by denzil_correa 8y ago
2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae".
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2011/press.html https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/20...
- samatman 8y agoYou may well know this, but there is a difference between (mere) expansion and acceleration of the rate of expansion. Lemaître discovered the former, confirmed by Hubble IIRC.