What is Dark Energy? Inside our accelerating, expanding Universe

Some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe began with a rapid expansion we call the big bang. After this initial expansion, which lasted a fraction of a second, gravity started to slow the universe down. But the cosmos wouldn’t stay this way. Nine billion years after the universe began, its expansion started to speed up, […]
Posted on February 5, 2024
Sign up for our newsletter:

Categories

2
323
12
13
6
1
3
48
1
1
6
1
1
5
298
9
7
1
2
4
3
29
1
55
4
10
2
6
1
7
595
141
6
10
2
1
90
1
1
9
233
10
1
2
42
14
2
29
184
3
3
18
1
1
13
12
2
4
1
1
10
209
37
1
23
135
1
1
4
2
9
1
18
6
3
1
2
3
1
Io
4
9

Blog Posts

Newsletter Archive