Mapping cosmic shear to illuminate dark energy
Gravitational lensing often evokes images of a cosmic funhouse mirror: duplicated galaxies, dramatic arcs and distorted ...
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The Dark Age of Science
This week we are joined by Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who discusses the "dark age" of modern science and provides an update on The Galileo Project.
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Unveiling the Cosmos: How Astronomers Measure the Age of the Universe
When we gaze up at the night sky, it’s hard not to wonder about the vastness of the universe and its origins. The universe, ...
Team preps to study dark energy via exploding stars with NASA's Roman
The universe is ballooning outward at an ever-faster clip under the power of an unknown force dubbed dark energy. One of the ...
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The largest map of the cosmos hints that dark energy is changing. It could prove Einstein wrong and upend a pillar of modern physics.
One of the driving forces behind that evolution is also one of our age's biggest mysteries in physics: dark energy. Dark energy is the name astronomers have given to the unknown force that is ...
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What can dark energy teach us about the hidden world of dark data?
Yet, the digital age still falls short of answering humanity ... Dark data parallels the concept of dark energy in its obscurity and potential. Both represent phenomena that could yield ...
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What is dark energy? Exploding white dwarf stars may help us crack the case
A better understanding of type Ia supernovas could help solve the mystery of dark energy — the strange force that is causing the universe to expand at accelerating rates. That's because ...