Lifeboat Foundation

Are scientists wrong about dark energy? It looks like that could be the case.

Let’s dive into some recent findings from DESI, or the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, to talk about its weird findings and how that might change our understanding of the universe.

Dark energy is not related to dark matter, even though they have similar names. They’re both called “dark,” though, because they’re not directly observable. We infer their existence based on how we’ve observed our universe behaves.