Mapping cosmic shear to illuminate dark energy
Gravitational lensing often evokes images of a cosmic funhouse mirror: duplicated galaxies, dramatic arcs and distorted ...
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 ...
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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A First Glimpse of the Hidden Cosmos
Photograph by Robert Clark A View From Chile of Cosmic ExpansionThe Dark Energy Survey will map an eighth of the sky at high resolution. One galaxy it has already imaged is NGC 1365, the Great ...
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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 ...