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Cosmology

the unknown component driving the accelerating expansion of the universe, first inferred from distant type Ia supernovae.

In cosmology, dark energy refers to the unknown component driving the accelerating expansion of the universe, first inferred from distant type Ia supernovae. This meaning comes from Riess (1998) in The Astronomical Journal.[1]

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References

Riess, A. G., Filippenko, A. V., Challis, P., Clocchiatti, A., Diercks, A., Garnavich, P. M., Gilliland, R. L., Hogan, C. J., Jha, S., Kirshner, R. P., Leibundgut, B., Phillips, M. M., Reiss, D., Schmidt, B. P., Schommer, R. A., Smith, R. C., Spyromilio, J., Stubbs, C., Suntzeff, N. B., & Tonry, J. (1998). Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant. The Astronomical Journal, 116(3), 1009-1038. https://doi.org/10.1086/300499

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