Even Einstein was reluctant to endorse this extension of his theory of general relativity. In 1929 at the Mt. Wilson Observatory in California, Edwin Hubble discovered that galaxies were moving ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Combining different pieces from Big Bang cosmology could help explain ... of the universe’s biggest outstanding problems. Since Edwin Hubble realized the universe is always expanding nearly ...

The idea that the universe is expanding was first proposed by Edwin Hubble in the late 1920s and ... Lemaître to propose the ...

Edwin Powell Hubble is renowned for determining that ... and confirmation of the big bang theory. Hubble calculated it to be about 2 billion years ago, but more recent estimates have revised ...

On January 29, 1931, the world’s premier physicist, Albert Einstein, and its foremost astronomer, Edwin Hubble ... poetic scenario arose today’s big bang. Many were appalled by this concept.

Hubble's discovery of expanding galaxies confirmed the universe's vastness, laying the foundation for the Big Bang theory and ...

It wasn't until 1949 that the term "big bang" came into fashion. This was a relief to Edwin Hubble's contemporary ... He was partly right in that Einstein's theory of special relativity explained ...

Belgian cosmologist and Catholic priest Georges Lemaitre made that connection by realizing that the theory ... the big bang, when the universe was 20 times smaller than it is now. Edwin Hubble ...