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Hubble law



The empirical rule that governs the rate of expansion of the universe, discovered by Edwin Hubble. Its is simply that the velocity of recession of a galaxy, v, is directly proportional to its distance from the observer, r. The Hubble constant is the proportionality factor in this law.


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