To check these predictions, the DES had to combine all four of the methods of investigating dark energy: study of signals ...

Over ten years ago, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) began mapping the universe to find evidence that could help us understand the nature of the mysterious phenomenon known as dark energy. I'm one of more ...

Dark energy is still one of the greatest cosmic mysteries. For all the time, money and telescopes that humanity has used to uncover its nature, scientists are still asking a fundamental question: What ...

Dark energy remains one of the most stubborn puzzles in modern science. Despite decades of observation and increasingly ...

Our universe does host life, but another one might be even better suited for life. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read ...

The Universe is not only expanding, but its expansion even seems to be speeding up. What is causing this acceleration, modestly concealed under the term dark energy? Research conducted as part ...

For decades, astronomers have believed that dark matter and dark energy make up most of the universe, however, a new study suggests they might not exist at all. Instead, what we perceive as dark ...

Left: A key figure from the report, exploring what the cosmologically coupled black holes, or CCBH, hypothesis implies about the mass of neutrinos, or "ghost particles." Right: An annotation of this ...

Astronomers use the term dark energy to refer to energy in the universe that is unaccounted for by ordinary matter but ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. But what if their rapacious appetites had an unexpected side effect? A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black holes ...

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