Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-09-23
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in the December 2001 issue of PASP, as part of the `Millennium Essay' series. Text and abstract revised in some loca
Scientific paper
10.1086/324512
Nearly 4 years ago, two teams of observational astronomers reported that high-redshift Type Ia supernovae are fainter than expected in a decelerating or freely coasting universe. The radical conclusion that the universe has been accelerating in the past few billion years, possibly because of a nonzero value for Einstein's cosmological constant, has gripped the worlds of astronomy and physics, causing a flurry of new research. Having participated on both teams (but much more closely with one than the other), here I provide a personal, historical account of the story.
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