Dark energy mystery is finally SOLVED - as scientists come up with a radical new theory to explain the mysterious force
Dark energy, one of the most mysterious concepts in astronomy, has baffled the world's greatest minds for decades. Lead author professor David Wiltshire says: 'Our findings show that we do not need dark energy to explain why the Universe appears to expand at an accelerating rate.' Scientists claim to have solved the mystery of dark energy by showing why we don't need this strange force to explain the Universe's expansion. Pictured, NASA's map of dark matter in the universe Observations taken by the Hubble Space Telescope show that the universe is expanding faster than the standard model would predict. Pictured, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument map of the universe The researchers found that their 'timescape' model was better at predicting the data from a type of supernova in galaxies like NGC 1015.
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