Big Bang Vocabulary

Causes the expansion of the universe to accelerate.

• dark energy

• dark matter

• Hubble's Law

matter that does not give off electromagnetic radiation

• dark energy

• dark mattter

• cosmic background radiation

low levels of energy that are evenly distributed throughout the universe

• Big Bang Theory

• Hubble's Law

• Cosmic Background Radiation

The observation that the farther away a galaxy is, the faster it is moving away from us.

• Big Bang Theory

• Hubble's Law

• Cosmic Background Radiation

The theory that the universe originated as a single point, which expanded outward to form our known universe.

• Big Bang Theory

• Hubble's Law

• Cosmic Background Radiation

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2