{"id":191788,"date":"2024-06-25T18:29:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T23:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/model-of-ever-expanding-universe-confirmed-by-dark-energy-probe"},"modified":"2024-06-25T18:29:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T23:29:59","slug":"model-of-ever-expanding-universe-confirmed-by-dark-energy-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/model-of-ever-expanding-universe-confirmed-by-dark-energy-probe","title":{"rendered":"Model of ever-expanding universe confirmed by dark energy probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/model-of-ever-expanding-universe-confirmed-by-dark-energy-probe3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The standard theory of cosmology\u2014which says 95% of the universe is made up of unknown stuff we can\u2019t see\u2014has passed its strictest test yet. The first results released from an instrument designed to study the cosmic effects of mysterious dark energy confirm that, to the nearest 1%, the universe has evolved over the past 11 billion years just as theorists have predicted.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, presented today in a series of talks at the American Physical Society meeting in Sacramento, California, and the Moriond meeting in Italy, as well as in a <a href=\"https:\/\/data.desi.lbl.gov\/doc\/papers\/\">set of preprints<\/a> posted to arXiv, come from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which has logged more than 6 million galaxies in deep space to construct the largest 3D map of the universe yet compiled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a tremendous instrument and a major result,\u201d says Eric Gawiser, a cosmologist at Rutgers University who was not involved with the work. \u201cThe universe DESI is finding is very sensible, with tantalizing hints of a more interesting one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The standard theory of cosmology\u2014which says 95% of the universe is made up of unknown stuff we can\u2019t see\u2014has passed its strictest test yet. The first results released from an instrument designed to study the cosmic effects of mysterious dark energy confirm that, to the nearest 1%, the universe has evolved over the past 11 [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191788","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=191788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}