The BIG BANG
In an instant
Billions of years ago
Enormous explosion
What to expect to support the theory
Matter hurled apart
Moving apart
Evidence of energy left over from the
explosion
Hubble’s law- 1920 (Edwin Hubble)
Supports the big bang theory
observance that the farther away a galaxy was,
the faster it seems to be moving away from earth,
found that there is a mathematical relation between how far away a galaxy
is and how fast it is moving away from us.
Cosmic
Background radiation
1965
Detected fainted radiation on radio telescope
Left over thermal energy
Distributed in every direction
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Doppler Shift
Moving from Earth
Red-Blue shift
What happened to the cosmic background radiation as the universe expanded
?
Wavelength increases
The velocity of a galaxy is measured using the Doppler effect.
The radiation coming from a moving object is shifted in wavelength:
Age of the Universe
13.7 billion
year old
Dark Matter
makes up about 23 percent of the universe's mass-energy
budget.
normal matter,
the stuff of stars, planets
and people, contributes just 4 percent.
rest of the universe is driven by an even more mysterious
thing called dark energy.
small portion already been identified
no longer mysterious.
tiny particles called neutrinos
now known to make up small
portion of the total dark matter.
cold dead stars contribute
a little
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/dark_matter_animated_030415-1.html