Dark energy is still one of the greatest cosmic mysteries. For all the time, money and telescopes that humanity has used to uncover its nature, scientists are still asking a fundamental question: What is dark energy?
With the Dark Energy Survey, a six-year international collaboration between over 400 scientists that carried out one of the deepest wide-area surveys of the sky, coming to an end, astrophysicists are getting closer to the answer. This week, scientists working on the Dark Energy Survey published their final results. While they don’t crack open the mysteries of the universe, they get humanity one step closer to understanding dark energy.
“We have not answered all these questions. We have some hints,” said Jonathan Blazek, an assistant physics professor at Northeastern University and co-lead on the project’s modeling and analysis team. “We know better than ever what we should be asking and how we should be trying to answer those questions, but we don’t have the answers yet.”
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