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The 39th Annual Bunyan Lecture: The Surprising Expansion History of the Universe

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Location

Campus, Hewlett 201

Speaker
Adam Riess (Johns Hopkins University) In Person

In 1929 Edwin Hubble discovered that our Universe is expanding. Eighty years later, the Space Telescope that bears his name is being used to study an even more surprising phenomenon: that the expansion is speeding up. The origin of this effect is not known but is broadly attributed to a type of “dark energy” first posited to exist by Albert Einstein and now dominating the mass-energy budget of the Universe.