Accelerating Universe Quotes

We've known for a long time that the universe is expanding. But about 15 years ago, my colleagues and I discovered that it is expanding faster and faster. That is, the universe is accelerating, and that was not expected, but it is now attributed to this mysterious stuff called dark energy which seems to make up about 70 percent of the universe.

For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating is astounding. If the expansion will continue to speed up, the Universe will end in ice.

We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched.

It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.

Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.

That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.