It gets its name from UChicago alum Edwin Hubble, who was first to calculate the constant from his measurements of stars in 1929. Despite nearly a hundred years of astronomical measurements and ...

"I knew how to get it, and I knew that that would give us one of the most precise measurements of the Hubble constant we could get, so when their paper came out, I dropped absolutely everything ...

After five years of staring unblinking at the sky, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has compiled the most detailed map ...

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

In 2014, Freedman brought her work to UChicago to further research how to increase the accuracy of Hubble constant measurements to determine whether something fundamental is missing from the modern ...

Nowadays, satellite experiments and powerful telescopes on earth were able to measure the properties ... used multiple methods of estimating the Hubble constant, and the different methods are ...