Our universe’s expansion is still accelerating despite recent claims suggesting otherwise, an international team of astrophysicists says.

They refuted a study published last year claiming the growth of the universe is slowing and insist there is no flaw in the widely accepted theory that a mysterious force known as dark energy is driving the expanding cosmos.

The researchers, who include two Nobel laureates and represent institutions worldwide, say the debate that followed last November’s revelations was the result of a scientific misunderstanding rather than a cosmic grenade threatening to blow apart everything we know about the universe.