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New research suggests that dark energy, the mysterious force driving the Universe’s accelerating expansion, might not be constant after all. Since the early 20th century, researchers have gathered strong evidence that the Universe is not only expanding but doing so at an accelerating pace. This acce...
Scientists Map the Invisible Universe, Revealing New Clues About Dark Matter and Dark Energy
(scitechdaily.com)
By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden from view. About 95 percent of the cosmos consists of dark matter and dark energy, substances that ...
The rapid acceleration of the universe’s expansion continues to challenge our understanding of fundamental physics. Why the universe is expanding faster and faster remains one of the most intriguing open questions in modern physics. Current theories cannot fully account for this behavior using the e...
A rare gravitationally lensed supernova could help astronomers determine how fast the universe is expanding and shed light on dark energy. Astronomers may be closer to understanding one of the greatest mysteries in cosmology: dark energy, the unknown force thought to be driving the accelerating expa...
Getting data out of databases: a surprisingly tricky problem — Martin Kleppmann’s talks
(martin.kleppmann.com)
Kleppmann's talk: slides, video, and references from the "All Your Base" conference.