On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

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Durham researchers Dark energy and black holes are possibly two of the most elusive concepts ever analyzed by experts. A ...

Scientists found where the universe’s missing matter went. Black holes have been pushing it far away from galaxies.

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, or Berkeley Lab, researchers mapped nearly six million galaxies throughout the past 11 billion years of cosmic evolution using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, ...

An international consortium of scientists studying dark energy said Tuesday their three-dimensional map of the universe over 11 billion years suggested the cosmos wasn't steadily expanding, but acting ...

For this reason, physicists and astronomers predicted the existence of an invisible 'something' that expands the universe.

Dark energy, a mysterious force that scientists believe is behind the accelerated expansion of the universe, is weakening — which could result in the universe over the course of billions of years ...

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe's greatest mysteries. The most widely accepted theory currently suggests ...

(CNN) — New hints from one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos to date suggest that mysterious dark energy may be evolving in ways that could shift how astronomers understand the universe.

NEW YORK (AP) — Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought. Astronomers know that the universe is being pushed ...