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Improved Local Expansion Rate

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2016

Adam Guy Riess2016

SH0ES · Science / Astronomy

Riess and the SH0ES collaboration improve the local Hubble constant measurement, sharpening comparisons between the late universe and cosmological models containing dark energy.

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Adam Guy Riess

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