27 January 2017
Distant quasars help refine the rate of the expanding Universe
...is crucial for modern astronomy as it can help to confirm or refute whether our picture of the Universe – composed of dark energy, dark matter and normal matter – is actually correct, or if we are missing something fundamental," Suyu said. The figure...
06 November 2020
The Moon could have a long-lost "twin" in orbit around Mars
... Vera C. Rubin Observatory begins operations in 2022. Although the Rubin Observatory is set to probe the nature of dark matter and dark energy, it will also conduct the most ambitious survey of the solar system to-date. Rubin is expected to discover...
29 March 2018
Mapping the Heavens
... past century”. “The cosmos”, it continues, “is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter”. The ‘tour’ comprises seven chapters covering astronomy and astrophysics from the “early...
09 October 2019
This year's Physics Nobel Prize winners
... is known, the matter which constitutes stars, planets, trees – and us. The rest, 95 per cent, is unknown dark matter and dark energy. This is a mystery and a challenge to modern physics. In October 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announced...
22 June 2018
Most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
...reason these alternative models of gravity have the scale dependancy is to remove the need for dark energy – an unknown form of energy which is hypothesised to permeate all of space, and is causing the expansion of the Universe at an accelerated rate...
19 April 2016
APSS 2016 Was Held in Beijing at the End of February
... – Broadband frequency comb for calibration of astronomical spectrographs Tetsuya Hara (Kyoto Sangyo University) – Quest for dark energy potentials in quintessence Tamaz Kaladze (Tbilisi State University) – Generation of zonal flow and magnetic field...
