Galaxies, cosmology, and the scale of the Universe

Recent results show that H_0 = 71 km/sec/Mpc (1% accuracy) (a Mpc is a Megaparsec, or 1 million parsecs).

Another results seems to show that the outward acceleration of the Universe is increasing due to a mysterious thing called dark energy. We have no idea what the substance of dark energy (or even dark matter, for that matter) is.

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