Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds

2024-09-18

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A generation of physicists has referred to the dark energy that permeates the universe as “the cosmological constant.” Now the largest map of the cosmos to date hints that this mysterious energy has been changing over billions of years.

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Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds

Quanta Science Podcast

Fler avsnitt från "Quanta Science Podcast"

What Happens in a Mind That Can't 'See' Mental Images

What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly?

Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy

Electric 'Ripples' in the Resting Brain Tag Memories for Storage

AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory's Near-Endless Possibilities

Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare

Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds

Brain's 'Background Noise' May Explain Value of Shock Therapy

Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton

Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information