Glossary · term
Hubble constant
Cosmology
- Aliases
- Hubble parameter, Hubble tension
- Domain
- Cosmology
Definition
The present rate of expansion — how fast recession speed grows with distance, about 70 km/s per megaparsec. Two careful methods disagree on it by 5σ, which is the Hubble tension.
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