Dark Energy Is Not Real, New Data Analysis Finds

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According to our current understanding of astrophysics, the universe is not only expanding, but also growing at an ever-increasing rate. The most-accepted model for this expansion attributes the accelerated expansion to dark energy – but what if it’s wrong? A group of astrophysicists have offered up a different explanation, which they call the “timescape” model. They claim that it fits the data better than dark energy. Let’s take a look.

Paper: https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/537/1/L55/7926647?login=false

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