Hacker News with Generative AI: Dark Energy

'More than a hint' that dark energy isn't what astronomers thought (nytimes.com)
An international team of astronomers on Wednesday unveiled the most compelling evidence to date that dark energy — a mysterious phenomenon pushing our universe to expand ever faster — is not a constant force of nature but one that ebbs and flows through cosmic time.
Cosmology, Astronomy, Dark Energy, Science
140 points by Hooke 14 days ago | 99 comments
Dark Energy experiment challenges Einstein's theory of Universe (bbc.com)
The mysterious force called Dark Energy, which drives the expansion of the Universe, might be changing in a way that challenges our current understanding of time and space, scientists have found.
Cosmology, Physics, Science, Einstein, Dark Energy
4 points by ViktorRay 14 days ago | 0 comments
DESI Opens Access to the Largest 3D Map of the Universe Yet (newscenter.lbl.gov)
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is mapping millions of celestial objects to better understand dark energy: the mysterious driver of our universe’s accelerating expansion. Today, the DESI collaboration released a new collection of data for anyone in the world to investigate.
Science, Astronomy, Dark Energy, Mapping, Data Release
133 points by gnabgib 14 days ago | 18 comments
Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker? New Evidence Strengthens the Case (quantamagazine.org)
Last spring, a team of nearly 1,000 cosmologists announced that dark energy — the enigmatic agent propelling the universe to swell in size at an ever-increasing rate — might be slackening.
Cosmology, Dark Energy, Physics, Science
32 points by pseudolus 14 days ago | 12 comments
Physicists who want to ditch dark energy (nautil.us)
The idea that mysterious stuff speeds up the acceleration of the universe could be a big mistake
Physics, Cosmology, Dark Energy
106 points by dnetesn 81 days ago | 147 comments