Solve the mystery of the accelerating expansion of the universe with Adam Riess: 3rd Episode of ‘A Night with the Space Nobelists’

In the third episode of ‘A Night with the Space Nobelists’ the event host Tommi Tenkanen interviews Prof. Adam Riess

Why is the universe expanding and why does the expansion accelerate? How was this strange discovery received by the colleagues of Adam Riess? Watch now the 3rd episode of “A Night with the Space Nobelists” to find out! And learn also what does Prof. Riess think is the biggest unanswered question in cosmology?

Adam Riess is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute. He received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt) for “the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae