A new study says dark energy is real and is causing space-time and the universe to expand.
The paper to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, has been put together by a team of 26 scientists, including Dr Chris Blake from Melbourne's Swinburne University, and provides the first independent confirmation of both the existence of dark energy and its rate of expansion.
"It shows physicist Albert Einstein was right," says Dr Blake.
"Dark energy is a smooth cosmological constant throughout the universe, rather than a change in the laws of gravity."
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