The publication of the observations by Slipher, Wirtz, Hubble and their colleagues and the acceptance by the theorists of their theoretical implications in light of Einstein's General theory of relativity is considered the beginning of the modern science of cosmology.
Publikovanie pozorovaní Slipherom, Wirtzom Hubblom a ich kolegami a prijatie ich teoretických dôsledkov v súvislosti so všeobecnou relativitou teoretikmi sa považuje za začiatok modernej kozmológie.