{"id":199914,"date":"2024-11-21T15:23:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T21:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/mind-blowing-dark-energy-instrument-results-show-einstein-was-right-about-gravity-again"},"modified":"2024-11-21T15:23:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T21:23:14","slug":"mind-blowing-dark-energy-instrument-results-show-einstein-was-right-about-gravity-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/mind-blowing-dark-energy-instrument-results-show-einstein-was-right-about-gravity-again","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mind-blowing\u2019 dark energy instrument results show Einstein was right about gravity \u2014 again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mind-blowing-dark-energy-instrument-results-show-einstein-was-right-about-gravity-again2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have now performed one such large-scale test by using DESI. They observed almost 6 million galaxies and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17262-quasar-definition.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17262-quasar-definition.html\">quasars<\/a>, which are bright hearts of galaxies powered by feeding supermassive <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html\">black holes<\/a>. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this test, which has traced the evolution of the universe since it was around 3 billion years old, has once again shown general relativity to be the right \u201crecipe\u201d for gravity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeneral relativity has been very well tested at the scale of solar systems, but we also needed to test that our assumption works at much larger scales,\u201d study co-leader and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) cosmologist Pauline Zarrouk <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1064971?\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1064971?\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cStudying the rate at which galaxies formed lets us directly test our theories and, so far, we\u2019re lining up with what general relativity predicts at cosmological scales.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have now performed one such large-scale test by using DESI. They observed almost 6 million galaxies and quasars, which are bright hearts of galaxies powered by feeding supermassive black holes. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this test, which has traced the evolution of the universe since it was around 3 billion years old, has once again shown [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199914","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=199914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}