For many years, the simplest view of dark energy has been that it remains unchanged. Throughout cosmic history, the ...

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Unlike for dark matter, scientists have no plausible explanation for dark energy. According to one idea, dark energy is a ...

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe’s greatest mysteries. The most widely accepted theory currently suggests ...

The jury is out as to whether dark energy is best described by a cosmological constant or as dynamical. This Perspective presents both sides of the case and considers the questions that need to be ...

Our current cosmological model—known as lambda cold dark matter, or ΛCDM—relies on hypothesized dark energy to explain the accelerating expansion of the universe. However, one competing theory known ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A render of a dark energy universe from NASA's Goddard Space Center. (Credit: NASA) Astronomers at the Center of Applied Space ...

Ask most astronomers, and they’ll tell you that dark matter and dark energy make up more than 95 percent of the universe and that they are the explanations for many of the large-scale phenomena we ...

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 ...

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe's greatest mysteries. The most widely accepted theory currently suggests ...

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