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Dark energy

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A new kind of hidden black hole may explain the mystery of dark energy

Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein鈥檚 theory of gravity to fail 鈥� and could solve the mystery of dark energy

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An artistic celebration of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) year-one data, showing a slice of the larger 3D map that DESI is constructing during its five-year survey. By mapping objects across multiple periods of cosmic history with extremely high precision, DESI is allowing astronomers to make unprecedented measurements of dark energy and its effect on the accelerating expansion of the Universe. DESI???s map reveals the large-scale structure of the Universe, showing clumps of galaxies separated by voids where there are fewer objects. This pattern is a result of large pressure waves that permeated the early Universe and is reflected in the cosmic microwave background ??? a 2D snapshot of the radiation that filled the Universe shortly after the Big Bang, which bears the imprint of the 3D galaxy distribution. DESI is mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, a Program of NSF NOIRLab. This version of the DESI map includes 600,000 galaxies ??? less than 0.1% of the survey's full volume. The locations of objects in the data slice do not correlate with their locations on-sky shown in this image.

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Could 2025 be the year we finally start to understand dark energy?

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Einstein鈥檚 theories tested on the largest scale ever 鈥� he was right

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First breathtaking images from Euclid telescope’s map of the universe

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Space

We are about to hear echoes in the fabric of space for the first time

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A slice through the largest 3D map of our universe to date

Space

Invisible ‘dark radiation’ may explain a big problem with dark energy

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Space

There are hints that dark energy may be getting weaker

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A legendary cosmologist on how to find a deeper theory of the universe

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Physics

The wonder particle: How axions could solve more than just dark matter

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Physics

A second big bang? The radical idea rewriting dark matter鈥檚 origins

The enduring mystery of dark matter has led some physicists to propose that it was forged in a distinct moment of cosmic creation, potentially transforming our view of the early universe

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Space

Dark stars: Have we finally found a weird sun powered by dark matter?

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Euclid space telescope is about to launch to probe the dark cosmos

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Physics

Can recreating black holes in the lab solve the puzzles of space-time?

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Dark energy may have been hiding in the cores of black holes all along

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