Multiple Choice
The primary evidence for the expanding universe concept is the
A) slow spreading out of stars in the near neighborhood of the Sun.
B) redshift of light from distant galaxies, which increases with distance of the galaxy from Earth.
C) discovery of black holes in binary stars.
D) slow increase in the Earth-Moon separation-about 4 cm per year-with time.
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