Topic: dark energy

This image captures not only Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, but one of the celestial specimens Rubin Observatory will observe when it comes online: the Milky Way. (Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/B. Quint)

New observatory to map the universe

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Early commissioning test image from Euclid’s Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument (ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA)

Europe's telescope shows "dark universe"

Matthew Rozsa
Black hole (Getty Images/Picture Umar)

Black holes don't just suck — they blow

Troy Farah
(Getty/ClaudioVentrella)

Mapping dark matter

Keith A. Spencer