Dark matter is a real pain in the neck. The term dark matter itself refers to a hypothetical substance that seems to solely interact with the rest of the universe via gravity and to serve as the ...

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is looking to create one of the largest maps of the universe by creating a catalog of Lyman-alpha-emitting galaxies. These galaxies, which ...

Somewhere in the distant universe, light from a quasar bends around a galaxy and reveals a dark clump so compact it should not exist. Closer to home, a thin ribbon of stars in the Milky Way bears a ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Last year, we reported on an exciting hint of new physics in the first data analysis results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)—namely that the dark energy, rather than being ...

The cosmological constant is the mathematical description of the energy that drives the ever-accelerating expansion of the ...

One of the greatest mysteries in cosmology is the nature of what we refer to as dark energy. This mysterious force drives the expansion of the universe to accelerate. Dark energy is an unknown ...

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Researchers have found that a hypothetical form of dark energy may lead to a grim fate for the universe: a "long freeze" where everything just…slows down. In this scenario, the universe would expand ...