{"id":225163,"date":"2025-11-15T12:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/universes-expansion-is-now-slowing-not-speeding-up-evidence-mounts-that-dark-energy-weakens-over-time"},"modified":"2025-11-15T12:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:07:11","slug":"universes-expansion-is-now-slowing-not-speeding-up-evidence-mounts-that-dark-energy-weakens-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/universes-expansion-is-now-slowing-not-speeding-up-evidence-mounts-that-dark-energy-weakens-over-time","title":{"rendered":"Universe\u2019s expansion \u2018is now slowing, not speeding up\u2019: Evidence mounts that dark energy weakens over time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/universes-expansion-is-now-slowing-not-speeding-up-evidence-mounts-that-dark-energy-weakens-over-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The universe\u2019s expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemarkable\u201d findings published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society cast doubt on the long-standing theory that a mysterious force known as \u2018dark energy\u2019 is driving distant galaxies away increasingly faster.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they show no evidence of an accelerating universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe\u2019s expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests. \u201cRemarkable\u201d findings published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society cast doubt on the long-standing theory that a mysterious force known as \u2018dark energy\u2019 is driving distant galaxies away increasingly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225163","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}