When Speed Matters - Discovery of the Accelerating Universe Wins 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics

Date- 16th Jan 12 Source- http://www.eso.org/public/videos/archive/category/esocast/

'In the past two decades, astronomers have made a truly revolutionary discovery: that the cosmos is not only expanding, but is doing so at an ever-faster rate. The discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.'

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• observatory
• cosmology

[crooksfischer]

As an Astrophysicist... I find this video to be offensive. Hubble is spinning in his grave!

[hyrcan]

As stated in the description, the research has been on going for two decades.

[spongah]

yeah, what gives?

[shkotay]

I thought ppl knew this years ago. I been reading about this since the mid 2000s, 2007 and 2009 in various publications.