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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Science
Tamara Davison

Dark energy: What is it and could the universe really collapse?

Dark energy, an unusual force associated with the expansion of the universe, may one day cause the cosmos to collapse, according to a new theory proposed by scientists.

Over the last few months, there’s been a lot of debate within the scientific community about dark energy after the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) telescope revealed that the rate of universal expansion has changed over time.

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