{"id":127981,"date":"2024-11-20T09:37:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T02:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=127981"},"modified":"2024-11-20T09:37:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T02:37:48","slug":"the-dark-energy-pushing-our-universe-apart-may-not-be-what-it-seems-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=127981","title":{"rendered":"The dark energy pushing our universe apart may not be what it seems, scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/space-telescope-launch-europe-universe-ed917b09537844edc8f61abf9cd01c29\">dark energy<\/a><\/span> may not be what they thought.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers know that the universe is being pushed apart at an accelerating rate and they have puzzled for decades over what could possibly be speeding everything up. They theorize that a powerful, constant force is at play, one that fits nicely with the main mathematical model that describes how the universe behaves. But they can\u2019t see it and they don\u2019t know where it comes from, so they call it dark energy. <\/p>\n<p>It is so vast it is thought to make up <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desi.lbl.gov\/cosmology-and-dark-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nearly 70% of the universe<\/a><\/span> \u2014 while ordinary matter like all the stars and planets and people make up just 5%. <\/p>\n<p>But findings <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/data.desi.lbl.gov\/doc\/papers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published earlier this year<\/a><\/span> by an international research collaboration of more than 900 scientists from around the globe yielded a major surprise. As the scientists analyzed how galaxies move they found that the force pushing or pulling them around did not seem to be constant. And the same group published a new, broader set of analyses Tuesday that yielded a similar answer. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not think that such a result would happen in my lifetime,\u201d said Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, a cosmologist at the University of Texas at Dallas who is part of the collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Called the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, it uses a telescope based in Tucson, Arizona to create a three-dimensional map of the universe\u2019s 11-billion-year history to see how galaxies have clustered throughout time and across space. That gives scientists information about how the universe evolved, and where it might be heading. <\/p>\n<p>The map they are building would not make sense if dark energy were a constant force, as it is theorized. Instead, the energy appears to be changing or weakening over time. If that is indeed the case, it would upend astronomers\u2019 standard cosmological model. It could mean that dark energy is very different than what scientists thought \u2014 or that there may be something else altogether going on. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a time of great excitement, and also some head-scratching and confusion,\u201d said Bhuvnesh Jain, a cosmologist at the University of Pennsylvania who is not involved with the research.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration\u2019s latest finding points to a possible explanation from an older theory: that across billions of years of cosmic history, the universe expanded and galaxies clustered as Einstein\u2019s general relativity predicted.<\/p>\n<p>The new findings aren\u2019t definitive. Astronomers say they need more data to overturn a theory that seemed to fit together so well. They hope observations from other telescopes and new analyses of the new data over the next few years will determine whether the current view of dark energy stands or falls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe significance of this result right now is tantalizing,\u201d said Robert Caldwell, a physicist at Dartmouth College who is not involved with the research, \u201cbut it\u2019s not like a gold-plated measurement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot riding on the answer. Because dark energy is the biggest component of the universe, its behavior determines the universe\u2019s fate, explained David Spergel, an astrophysicist and president of the Simons Foundation. If dark energy is constant, the universe will continue to expand, forever getting colder and emptier. If it\u2019s growing in strength, the universe will expand so speedily that it\u2019ll destroy itself in what astronomers call the Big Rip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot to panic. If this is what\u2019s going on, it won\u2019t happen for billions of years,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we\u2019d like to know about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Associated Press video journalist Mary Conlon reported from New York.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u2019s Science and Educational Media Group. 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