05 April 2021
No dark energy needed, just dark matter with a magnetic force new study says
... which is faster now than in the beginning, is due to dark energy - a mysterious force thought to make up around 70 percent of... and galaxies. Given that so little is known about dark energy, scientists are constantly assessing new ideas to test its ...
05 December 2018
New theory unifies dark matter with dark energy
... just have solved one of the biggest problems in modern physics; the unification of dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon. Dark matter and dark energy are strange substances. Albert Einstein first provided a hint that the Universe was...
04 August 2017
Most accurate measurement of Universe's dark matter revealed by DES survey
...called Lambda-CDM – includes two key ingredients; cold dark matter (CDM) and dark energy. However dark matter has never been directly detected, while it is not known whether dark energy is actually a constant or changes over time. Now that scientists...
12 January 2018
Evidence in DES map of small galaxies being eaten by the Milky Way
...others were discovered using the Dark Energy Camera, the primary observation tool of the Dark Energy Survey and one of ... Although DES was carried out primarily to understand the nature of dark energy, as the data covers the full DES footprint – about ...
13 March 2020
Over 100 new minor planets found in new astronomical survey
...which makes up around 80 percent of the Universe – dark matter – scientists have found 300 minor planets located ... used data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES); a project to understand the nature of dark energy by collecting high-precision images...
24 October 2016
New research questions the rate at which the Universe is expanding
...acceptance of the idea that the universe is dominated by "dark energy" that behaves like a cosmological constant - this is now...and the cosmic microwave background is not directly affected by dark energy. Actually, there is indeed a subtle effect, the ...
