The largest map of the cosmos hints that dark energy is changing. It could prove Einstein wrong and upend a pillar of modern physics.
Levi is the director for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, DESI, which produced the new map. The instrument consists ...
Mapping cosmic shear to illuminate dark energy
Gravitational lensing often evokes images of a cosmic funhouse mirror: duplicated galaxies, dramatic arcs and distorted ...
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New Map of the Universe Challenges What We Know About Dark Energy
Scientists have created another massive 3D map of the universe, and this time, it can change what we thought we knew about dark energy. Rather than remaining constant throughout time, dark energy ...
A dark energy driven by star formation
Rolf Landauer showed that "information is physical" with every bit equivalent to a small amount of energy proportional to ...
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Dark energy, explained
“Dark energy” is a term scientists use to refer to whatever is causing the universe to expand faster over time. We don’t know exactly what dark energy is—no one has ever directly seen or measured ...