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Robert Lea

Dark energy is even stranger than we thought, new 3D map of the universe suggests. 'What a time to be alive!' (video)

(Mains) Two ‘fans’ correspond to the two main areas DESI has observed above and below the plane of our Milky Way. (Inset) Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO).

New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that the unknown force accelerating the expansion of the universe isn't what we believed it to be. This hints that our best theory of the universe's evolution, the standard model of cosmology, could be wrong.

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