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Hubble's Law and Cosmic Expansion

Recession velocity proportional to distance - galaxies fly apart.

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Hubble's Law and Cosmic Expansion

Hubble's Law: Universe Expansionv = H0 * d | H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc | recession redshift z = v/c

Recession velocity vs distance for galaxies. Linear relation v = H_0 d. Hubble constant H_0 ~ 70 km/s/Mpc. Modern Cepheid + Type Ia distance-ladder calibration.

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  • Cosmology intros

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This hubble's law and cosmic expansion is an editorial illustration built to represent the concept accurately. Where it shows figures, they are typical or representative values chosen to make the relationship clear, not a single underlying dataset. The diagram and its explainer are reviewed and maintained centrally, and updated over time as understanding improves.

Velocity proportional to distance

Hubble's law states that a galaxy's recession velocity is proportional to its distance from us: v equals H-zero times d, where H-zero is the Hubble constant. Edwin Hubble published the relationship in 1929, building on Vesto Slipher's redshift measurements and Georges Lemaitre's earlier theoretical derivation. The further away a galaxy is, the faster it appears to recede.

The constant is measured in kilometers per second per megaparsec, with current estimates clustering around 67 to 74, the spread being the ongoing Hubble tension between different measurement methods.

Expanding space, not motion through space

The recession is not galaxies flying through space from a central point. Space itself is expanding, stretching the wavelength of light in transit into a cosmological redshift. A useful analogy is dots on an inflating balloon: every dot sees every other dot receding, with no dot at the center. Running the expansion backward points to the Big Bang, and the inverse of the Hubble constant gives a rough estimate of the age of the universe.

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