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Hubble Constant Narrows Dark Energy Models

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2009

Adam Guy Riess2009

Hubble Space Telescope · Science / Astronomy

Riess improves the Hubble constant measurement, reducing the range of dark-energy models allowed when local expansion data are combined with early-universe observations.

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Adam Guy Riess

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