The leading hypothesis is a repellent force ... mass-energy budget of the universe, dark matter makes up 27 percent, and normal matter rounds out the remaining five percent. The concept of dark ...

It's a key concept in charting the expansion ... to expand at an accelerating rate. The map is shaped by the competing forces of dark energy and dark matter — a theoretical material that doesn ...

The new concept replaces the dark ... Of this enormous slice of the universe's matter and energy budget, dark energy — the placeholder name for the force causing the expansion of the universe ...

Experts have made a discovery that challenges the long-held understanding of how the universe is expanding. A recent study, ...

Although some compelling evidence exists to support the idea that a repulsive force similar to dark ... out of existence could provide the energy and matter seen in decades of observations.

New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that the unknown force accelerating the ... continues to build the largest 3D map of the universe ever created.

Most importantly, this theory dares to explain it all without relying on dark matter or dark energy — two invisible forces that scientists ... model relied on a concept known as “negative ...

and the strong and weak nuclear forces), emerging from some as-yet-undiscovered dark matter particle that can influence dark energy. Frieman says the data from DESI is so precise that if this ...

These redshifts were then used to measure distances, and allowed cosmologists to map ... matter, 25% dark matter (unknown, invisible matter), and 70% "dark energy" (an expansive force ...

The current "standard model" of the cosmos, its history, and its evolution is called the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM ... have suggested that dark energy, the force causing our universe to ...

A sprawling map that shows how dark matter was distributed in space during earlier periods in cosmic history has given researchers an important new tool for measuring the large-scale forces ...