{"id":32300,"date":"2023-05-03T11:25:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T10:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=32300"},"modified":"2023-05-03T11:25:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T10:25:11","slug":"scientists-make-surprising-new-discovery-about-dark-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/scientists-make-surprising-new-discovery-about-dark-energy\/32300\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists make surprising new discovery about dark energy"},"content":{"rendered":"
When Edwin Hubble observed distant galaxies in the 1920s, he made the groundbreaking discovery that the Universe was expanding. However, in 1988, further studies indicated that it had also begun a phase of accelerating expansion.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo explain this acceleration, we need a source,\u201d explained Joe Mohr, an astrophysicist at Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU). \u201cWe refer to this source as \u2018dark energy,\u2019 which provides an \u2018anti-gravity\u2019 to speed up cosmic expansion.\u201d<\/p>\n
The existence of dark energy and cosmic acceleration is a surprise. This indicates that our current understanding of physics is either incomplete or incorrect.<\/p>\n
Now, I-Non Chiu from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, in collaboration with LMU astrophysicists Matthias Klein, Sebastian Bocquet, and Joe Mohr, has published a first-of-its-kind study. To do this, they used the eROSITA X-ray telescope, which focuses on galaxy clusters.<\/p>\n