{"id":267952,"date":"2025-01-01T22:48:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T22:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/could-2025-be-the-year-we-finally-start-to-understand-dark-energy\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:09:50","slug":"could-2025-be-the-year-we-finally-start-to-understand-dark-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/could-2025-be-the-year-we-finally-start-to-understand-dark-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Could 2025 be the year we finally start to understand dark energy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"An artistic celebration of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) year-one data, showing a slice of the larger 3D map that DESI is constructing during its five-year survey. By mapping objects across multiple periods of cosmic history with extremely high precision, DESI is allowing astronomers to make unprecedented measurements of dark energy and its effect on the accelerating expansion of the Universe. DESI???s map reveals the large-scale structure of the Universe, showing clumps of galaxies separated by voids where there are fewer objects. This pattern is a result of large pressure waves that permeated the early Universe and is reflected in the cosmic microwave background ??? a 2D snapshot of the radiation that filled the Universe shortly after the Big Bang, which bears the imprint of the 3D galaxy distribution. DESI is mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, a Program of NSF NOIRLab. This version of the DESI map includes 600,000 galaxies ??? less than 0.1% of the survey's full volume. The locations of objects in the data slice do not correlate with their locations on-sky shown in this image.\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16160153\/SEI_232971690.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2460953\" data-caption=\"This rainbow pattern\u00a0shows the structure of 60,000 galaxies as captured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument\" data-credit=\"DESI Collaboration\/KPNO\/NOIRL\u200bab\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">This rainbow pattern\u00a0shows the structure of 60,000 galaxies as captured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">DESI Collaboration\/KPNO\/NOIRL\u200bab<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>We think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article-topic\/dark-energy\/\">dark energy<\/a> makes up most of the universe, but we have no idea what it actually is. In 2025, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in Arizona may offer clues, particularly in relation to how this strange force has changed as the universe matured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEither there is some new form of dark energy that we don\u2019t know about yet or this could be a paradigm shift, maybe [the data will show] that there is something we don\u2019t understand about space and time,\u201d says\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26435232-300-could-2025-be-the-year-we-finally-start-to-understand-dark-energy\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] This rainbow pattern\u00a0shows the structure of 60,000 galaxies as captured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument DESI Collaboration\/KPNO\/NOIRL\u200bab We think dark energy makes up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}