Dark Energy

Accepted · 1998

Status: Accepted
Year: 1998

Summary

The expansion of the universe is accelerating, driven by something with negative pressure that makes up about seven tenths of everything. A cosmological constant fits — at a value 120 orders of magnitude off theory.

Timeline

Dark Energy Takes Over Present Day The Local Group Is Alone Heat Death

Equations

Hubble's Law Second Friedmann Equation Einstein Field Equations Critical Density Cosmological Equation of State

Proponent

Brian Schmidt Saul Perlmutter Adam Riess

Referenced by

equation

Cosmological Equation of State Critical Density Einstein Field Equations Hubble's Law Second Friedmann Equation

event

Dark Energy Takes Over Heat Death Present Day The Local Group Is Alone

researcher

Adam Riess Brian Schmidt Saul Perlmutter

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