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Re:Universe May Contain “Tardis” Regions Bigger On The Insid... by JumpCrisscross on Monday September 09, 2013 @12:14PM (#6354326)
Hubble's Law said the velocity of distant galaxies was faster than that of nearer ones. It is only in 1998 that we discovered the universe's expansion is accelerating, i.e. that Hubble's "constant" is shifting.

We found this out by very precisely measuring the brightness of a very specific type of supernova, a Type Ia supernova, which has a very consistent intrinsic brightness (about 5 billion times brighter than our Sun) allowing for distance measurements with an uncertainty of just 5%. This was a novel achievement, enough to merit the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.

Re:Universe May Contain “Tardis” Regions Bigger On The Insid... by VladRussian2 on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @07:58AM (#6359461)
somebody needs to update wikipedia then:

>Current evidence suggests the expansion of the universe is accelerating (see Accelerating universe), meaning that for any given galaxy, the recession velocity dD/dt is increasing over time as the galaxy moves to greater and greater distances; however, the Hubble parameter is actually thought to be decreasing with time, meaning that if we were to look at some fixed distance D and watch a series of different galaxies pass that distance, later galaxies would pass that distance at a smaller velocity than earlier ones.[33]