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Cosmology And Large-Scale Structure

This group collects the Astronomy subcategory's members whose defining work concerns cosmology: the origin, expansion and large-scale structure of the universe, dark energy and the cosmic microwave background, from the founders of the expanding-universe model to the modern observational cosmologists who measured the universe's accelerating expansion. It is kept apart from Galactic And Extragalactic Astronomy, whose members study individual galaxies rather than the universe's overall structure and history.

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1. Wikipedia: Physical cosmology
WikipediaPhysical cosmology, lead section, origin sentence
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Physical cosmology, as it is now understood, began in 1915 with the development of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, followed by major observational discoveries in the 1920s.
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