Upending What We Know About Dark Energy
It wasn’t so long ago that scientists learned the universe is expanding at an ever-quickening pace. Like many in the field, Bhuvnesh Jain at first had a hard time taking seriously the finding—that is, until independent validation came from cosmic microwave background data (radio waves carrying information about the universe’s early days). Today, that breakthrough is considered one of the biggest in cosmology, and yet, despite extensive scientific probing, dark energy remains shrouded in mystery.
