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5.7 Exercise 5

Avg difficulty 2.5

All galaxies farther away than about 50×106ly50 \times 10^{6} \text{ly} exhibit a red shift in their emitted light that is proportional to distance, with those farther and farther away having progressively greater red shifts. What does this imply, assuming that the only source of red shift is relative motion?

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