As the universe expands as a result of the big Bang, cosmologists long wondered whether it would continue to expand steadily forever or would collapse back into itself in a Bid Crunch. Researchers were surprised to find that neither scenario appeared to be taking place. Instead, they saw that the universe was not just continuing to expand, but it was doing so at a faster and faster rate. As we mentioned in an earlier post, Saul Perlmutter, Brain P. Schmidt, and Adam G. Riess won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011 for this discovery. The accelerated expansion of he universe is blamed on another mysterious source of force called “dark energy.”
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