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Encyclopedia - Dark Energy: Encyclopedia - Dark Energy
edit In cosmology, dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy which permeates all of space and has strong negative pressure. According ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dark Energy: Encyclopedia Ii - Dark Energy - History
The cosmological constant was first proposed by Einstein as a mechanism to obtain a stable solution of the gravitational field equation t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dark Energy: Encyclopedia Ii - Dark Energy - Nature Of Dark Energy
The exact nature of this dark energy is a matter of speculation. It is known to be very homogeneous, not very dense and doesn't interact ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dark Energy: Encyclopedia Ii - Dark Energy - Evidence For Dark Energy
During the late 1990s, observations of type Ia supernovae ("one a") suggested that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. These o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dark Energy: Encyclopedia Ii - Dark Energy - Implications For The Fate Of The Universe
Cosmologists estimate that the acceleration began roughly 5 billion years ago. Before that, it is thought that the expansion was decelera...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dark Energy: Encyclopedia Ii - Dark Energy - Evidence For Dark Energy
During the late 1990s, observations of type Ia supernovae suggested that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. These observation...   » Read the article