Examples of megaparsec in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In their analysis, H0 comes out to be 73.04 ± 1.04 kilometers per second per megaparsec. — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2022 Each number is an expression of the same thing—the kilometers-per-second rate of cosmic expansion per every megaparsec (roughly 3.26 million light-years) of space. — Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2022 The trend continued; as of their latest analysis last March, Riess’s team pegged the Hubble constant at 74 kilometers per second per megaparsec, 9% higher than the 67.4 extrapolated from the early universe. — Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2020 Under certain assumptions about the fundamental nature of the universe, Planck data suggest that the Hubble constant should have a value of 67.4 kilometers a second per megaparsec, give or take 0.5. — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 12 Sep. 2019 The Planck team predicts that the universe should expand at a rate of 67.4 kilometers per second per megaparsec. — Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2019 These ripples can be mapped and modeled to predict the expansion rate, which placed it at 67.4 kilometers per second per megaparsec. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 July 2019 Planck's data pegs the Hubble constant at about 67.4 kilometers per second per megaparsec, give or take 0.5. — National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019 According to the cosmic ladder, the universe is expanding at a rate of 73.24km per second per megaparsec. — The Economist, 17 May 2018 See More

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