{"id":238935,"date":"2026-06-13T22:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/dark-energy-survives-major-challenge-as-universe-keeps-accelerating"},"modified":"2026-06-13T22:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:10:42","slug":"dark-energy-survives-major-challenge-as-universe-keeps-accelerating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/dark-energy-survives-major-challenge-as-universe-keeps-accelerating","title":{"rendered":"Dark energy survives major challenge as universe keeps accelerating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-energy-survives-major-challenge-as-universe-keeps-accelerating.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bold claim that the universe\u2019s accelerating expansion was an illusion has been put to the test\u2014and failed. Researchers found that the study behind the controversy made key mistakes when analyzing supernova data. After revisiting the evidence, astronomers concluded that cosmic acceleration remains as strong as ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bold claim that the universe\u2019s accelerating expansion was an illusion has been put to the test\u2014and failed. Researchers found that the study behind the controversy made key mistakes when analyzing supernova data. After revisiting the evidence, astronomers concluded that cosmic acceleration remains as strong as ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238935","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}