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VARIOUS authors have suggested the existence of real fluctuations to Hubble's law (proportionality of redshift to distance) as a function of the position of sources on the sky map. Karoji and Nottale1 have examined the possibility of a variation of the Hubble constant H associated with the passage of incoming light through rich clusters of galaxies. We confirm here their positive answer by a more detailed and precise statistical analysis. We show that there is an effective continuous effect depending on the relative distance of the line of sight of any given source to the centre of the intervening clusters. We thus conclude that we are dealing with a real physical effect, tied to the presence of these clusters.
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NOTTALE, L., VIGIER, J. Continuous increase of Hubble modulus behind clusters of galaxies. Nature 268, 608–610 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/268608a0
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