GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

BIG BANG THEORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who discovered redshift?
A
Edwin Hubble
B
Lance Armstrong
C
Neil deGrasse Tyson
D
Albert Einstein
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Hubble’s Law of cosmological expansion was first formulated by Edwin Hubble in 1929. Hubble compared the distances to galaxies to their redshift and found a linear relationship. He interpreted the redshift as being caused by the receding velocity of the galaxies.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hubble’s brilliant observation was that the red shift of galaxies was directly proportional to the distance of the galaxy from earth. That meant that things farther away from Earth were moving away faster. In other words, the universe must be expanding. He announced his finding in 1929.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hubble found Cepheids in several nebulae, including the Andromeda Nebula and Triangulum Nebula. His observations, made in 1924, proved conclusively that these nebulae were much too distant to be part of the Milky Way and were, in fact, entire galaxies outside our own, thus today they are no longer considered nebula.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1929, Edwin Hubble provided the first observational evidence for the universe having a finite age. Using the largest telescope of the time, he discovered that the more distant a galaxy is from us, the faster it appears to be receding into space. This means that the universe is expanding uniformly in all directions.

There is 1 question to complete.