Dark energy is the mysterious force that is driving the accelerating expansion of the universe, accounting for approximately 70 percent of the total energy and matter content of the cosmos. Yet, ...

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute have brought us one step closer to understanding what the universe is made of. As part of the ...

The fabric of spacetime is roiling with vibrating quantum fields, known as vacuum energy. It's right there, everywhere we look. But could we ever get anything out of it? We can even calculate the ...

Black holes could explain a mysterious form of energy that makes up most of the universe, according to astronomers. The existence of “dark energy” has been inferred from observations of stars and ...