Matthias Bartelmann
The dark universe, the standard model of cosmology, provides a theoretical background for coherent explanations of the vast majority of cosmological phenomena, i.e., the expansion of the Universe, the cosmic microwave background, structure formation and galaxy rotation curves (requiring dark matter), the solution of the horizon and flatness problem (requiring a period of inflation), and the observed accelerated expansion (pointing towards dark energy). This review summarizes the standard cosmological model and discusses what we know from observations about the evolution of the Universe and its contents, and what can be concluded about its origin and future and the structures it contains.
Published 18 February 2010
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