Dark energy storage eye

How can we find dark energy from black holes?

To search for evidence of dark energy from black holes, the team used tens of millions of distant galaxies measured by DESI. The instrument peers billions of years into the past and collects data that can be used to determine how fast the universe is expanding with exquisite precision.

What is dark energy?

Dark energy is the name physicists use for whatever substance, force or property of space is messing with the Universe, making its expansion accelerate. As yet, we know almost nothing about it, which has allowed theories about it to multiply uncontrolled. But astronomers are training an impressive array of instruments on the problem.

What is the dark energy in the universe?

That ancient energy shared key features of the current universe’s dark energy, which is the largest mystery of our time by at least one objective standard: It makes up the majority—roughly 70%—of the universe, but scientists don’t know exactly what it is.

Why is dark energy important?

It outweighs everything else in existence, it governs the fate of the Universe and it cannot be explained by known physics. Dark energy is the name physicists use for whatever substance, force or property of space is messing with the Universe, making its expansion accelerate.

Is dark energy tearing the universe apart?

Dark energy is tearing the Universe apart. What if the force is weakening? The first set of results from a pioneering cosmic-mapping project hints that the repulsive force known as dark energy has changed over 11 billion years, which would alter ideas about how the Universe has evolved and what its future will be.

What is 'early dark energy'?

Their ‘early dark energy’ — which made more precise an idea that they and other teams had been working on for several years — would be a sort of fluid that permeated the Universe before withering away within a few hundred thousand years of the Big Bang. “It’s not a compelling argument, but it’s the only model we can get to work,” says Kamionkowski.