{"id":180233,"date":"2024-01-10T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/most-precise-measure-of-dark-energy-confirms-universe-wont-tear-apart"},"modified":"2024-01-10T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T01:49:00","slug":"most-precise-measure-of-dark-energy-confirms-universe-wont-tear-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/most-precise-measure-of-dark-energy-confirms-universe-wont-tear-apart","title":{"rendered":"Most Precise Measure of Dark Energy Confirms Universe Won\u2019t Tear Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/most-precise-measure-of-dark-energy-confirms-universe-wont-tear-apart2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over ten years ago, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkenergysurvey.org\/\">Dark Energy Survey (DES)<\/a> began mapping the Universe to find evidence that could help us understand the nature of the mysterious phenomenon known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/dark-energy\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">dark energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m one of more than 100 contributing scientists that have helped produce the final <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2401.02929.pdf\">DES measurement<\/a>, which has just been released at the <a href=\"https:\/\/aas.org\/meetings\/aas243\">243rd American Astronomical Society meeting<\/a> in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/astrophysics\/focus-areas\/what-is-dark-energy\/\">Dark energy<\/a> is estimated to make up nearly 70 percent of the observable Universe, yet we still don\u2019t understand what it is. While its nature remains mysterious, the impact of dark energy is felt on grand scales. Its primary effect is to drive the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/uploads\/2018\/06\/advanced-physicsprize2011.pdf\">accelerating expansion of the Universe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over ten years ago, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) began mapping the Universe to find evidence that could help us understand the nature of the mysterious phenomenon known as dark energy. I\u2019m one of more than 100 contributing scientists that have helped produce the final DES measurement, which has just been released at the 243rd [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}