This rainbow model shows the structure of 60,000 galaxies captured by the black energy spectroscopic instrument
Desi collaboration / kpno / norill ab
We think dark energy constitutes the majority of the universe, but we have no idea what it is. In 2025, the Specroscopic Instrument of Black Energy (DESI) in Arizona can offer clues, in particular in relation to the way in which this strange force has changed as the universe has matured.
“Either there is a new form of dark energy that we do not yet know, or it could be a paradigm shift, perhaps (the data shows) that there is something that we do not understand in space and time,” says …