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Field notes from space-time | There is no law of physics dictating that dark matter and dark energy can鈥檛 be connected, and it is natural to wonder about it, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Dark energy is a mysterious force making the universe fly apart faster and faster.聽 聽Its discovery came from one of the most unexpected results in the history of astronomy: in the late 1990s, two groups studying far-off supernovae discovered that these explosions of dying, overmassive stars were consistently fainter than expected.