Unraveling the Universe: Groundbreaking Measurement Shakes Up Physics
When it comes to measuring how fast the Universe is expanding, the result depends on which side of the Universe you start from. An EPFL…
Dark Energy News
“Cosmological Coupling” – New Evidence Points to Black Holes as Source of Dark Energy
Searching through existing data spanning 9 billion years, a team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa has uncovered the…
Physicists Discover a New Approach for Solving the Bizarre Dark Energy Mystery
What is behind dark energy — and what connects it to the cosmological constant introduced by Albert Einstein? Two physicists from the University of Luxembourg…
Supernova Explosions Reveal Precise Details of Dark Energy and Dark Matter
An analysis of more than two decades’ worth of supernova explosions convincingly boosts modern cosmological theories and reinvigorates efforts to answer fundamental questions. A powerful…
NASA Scientists Probe Dark Energy – Time To Rework Albert Einstein’s Theory of Gravity?
Could one of the biggest puzzles in astrophysics be solved by reworking Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity? Not yet, according to a new study co-authored…
Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Dark Energy
What Is Dark Energy? Dark energy is the name given to the as yet unknown energy source that is causing our Universe’s expansion to accelerate….
Dark Energy Vs. Modified Gravity: NASA’s Roman Mission Will Test Competing Cosmic Acceleration Theories
A team of scientists has predicted the science return from one of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s groundbreaking planned surveys, which will analyze millions…
Is Dark Energy Just an Illusion? Neutron Stars Will Tell Us
SISSA scientists provide the first simulation of neutron star collisions in extensions of general relativity relevant for cosmology, offering a new approach to test gravity….
Shadow of Cosmic Water Cloud Reveals Secrets of Early Universe – Confirms Properties of Dark Energy
An international group of astrophysicists has discovered a new method to estimate the cosmic microwave background temperature of the young Universe only 880 million years…
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Has Mapped More Galaxies Than All Previous 3D Surveys Combined
DOE Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument passes 7.5 million measured galaxy redshifts. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has cataloged more galaxies than all other previous…
Seeing Dark Energy’s True Colors: DESI Creates Largest 3D Map of the Cosmos
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has capped off the first seven months of its survey run by smashing through all previous records for three-dimensional…
The Uneven Universe: Cosmic Expansion and Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
Researchers study cosmic expansion using methods from many-body physics. It is almost always assumed in cosmological calculations that there is an even distribution of matter…
A New Era of Cosmological Discovery: NASA’s Roman Space Telescope To Unravel the Secrets of Dark Energy and Dark Matter
A team of scientists has forecast the scientific impact of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s High Latitude Wide Area Survey on critical questions in…
A Particle Physics Experiment May Have Directly Observed Dark Energy
About 25 years ago, astrophysicists noticed something very interesting about the Universe. The fact that it was in a state of expansion had been known…
XENON1T Experiment May Have Detected Dark Energy
Dark energy, the mysterious force that causes the universe to accelerate, may have been responsible for unexpected results from the XENON1T experiment, deep below Italy’s…
Finding “Missing” Matter: New Light on Baryonic Matter and Gravity on Cosmic Scales
Scientists estimate that dark matter and dark energy together are some 95% of the gravitational material in the universe while the remaining 5% is baryonic…
Exploring 7 Billion Light Years of Space With the Dark Energy Survey – Most Precise Look at the Universe’s Evolution
Dark Energy Survey Releases Most Precise Look at the Universe’s Evolution First three years of survey data uses observations of 226 million galaxies over ⅛…
DESI Aims to Create a 3D Map of the Universe and Unravel the Mysterious Nature of Dark Energy
Successful Start of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Follows Record-Setting Trial Run A five-year quest to map the universe and unravel the mysteries of dark…
