Very Existence of Dark Energy Cast in Doubt After New High Precision Data
New evidence shows that the key assumption made in the discovery of dark energy is in error. High precision age dating of supernova host galaxies…
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First Results From the Dark Energy Survey: Relationship Between Mass and Light Around Cosmic Voids
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) program uses the patterns of cosmic structure as seen in the spatial distribution of hundreds of millions of galaxies to…
Astrophysicists Developed a New Theory to Explain ‘Dark Energy’
The fact that our Universe is expanding was discovered almost a hundred years ago, but how exactly this happens, scientists realized only in the 90s…
‘Time Machine’ With 5,000 Robotic Eyes to Explore Dark Energy
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument begins final testing, setting the stage for a 5-year survey that will analyze the light of 35 million galaxies. A…
Are Black Holes Made of Dark Energy? Error Made When Applying Einstein’s Equations to Model Growth of the Universe?
Two University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers have identified and corrected a subtle error that was made when applying Einstein’s equations to model the growth…
Artificial Intelligence Proves 30% More Accurate Than Humans at Analyzing Dark Matter
A team of physicists and computer scientists at ETH Zurich has developed a new approach to the problem of dark matter and dark energy in…
NASA’s WFIRST Will Study Dark Energy and Help Uncover the Universe’s Fate [Video]
Scientists have discovered that a mysterious pressure dubbed “dark energy” makes up about 68% of the total energy content of the cosmos, but so far…
Clever Experiment on Single Atoms Advances Understanding of Dark Matter
An experiment to test a popular theory of dark energy has found no evidence of new forces, placing strong constraints on related theories. Dark energy…
New Results Show Dark Energy May Vary Over Time
A new study using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton suggests that dark energy may have varied over cosmic time. This artist’s…
Dark Energy Survey Reveals 11 Newly Discovered Stellar Streams
At a special session held during the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C., scientists on the Dark Energy Survey (DES) announced today the public…
Merger of Two Neutron Stars Challenges Dark Energy Theories
When scientists recorded a rippling in space-time, followed within two seconds by an associated burst of light observed by dozens of telescopes around the globe,…
Harvard Study Provides New Insights on Dark Energy
Different methods of studying cosmic expansion yield slightly different results, including for the age of the universe. In a new study, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian…
DES Reveals Most Accurate Measurement of Dark Matter Structure in the Universe
New results from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) reveal the most accurate measurement of dark matter structure in the universe, and support the view that…
New Map Measures the Effects of Dark Energy in the Expansion of the Universe
A new study details the results from the largest-ever, three-dimensional map of distant galaxies. The map is one of the most precise measurements yet of…
Galaxy Clusters Reveal Information About Dark Energy
Researchers are using a large sample of galaxy cluster to investigate dark energy, showing that dark energy has not changed over billions of years. Astronomers…
Astronomers Use Galaxy Clusters to Shed Light on the Universe’s Dark Side
Astronomers hope that by studying the properties of galaxy clusters at different stages in the history of the Universe they can shed light on the…
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Will Measure More Than 30 Million Galaxies and Quasars
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument has archived it second major milestone, approval of Critical Decision 2 (CD–2) authorizing the project’s scientific scope, schedule, and funding…
UCLA Physicists Use Cold Atoms to Probe Dark Energy
A team of physicists reproduced the low-density conditions of space to precisely measure dark energy, helping to reveal how strongly dark energy interacts with normal…
