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Infographic: the history of the universe. Credit: NASA

Artificial intelligence seeks to solve the dark energy problem

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This is according to the Dark Energy Survey Partnership, of which University College London is a founding member, hosts the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States and includes more than 400 scientists from 25 institutions in 7 countries
An example of a supernova detected by the Dark Energy Survey within the field covered by one of the few detectors in the Dark Energy Camera. The supernova exploded in a spiral galaxy with redshift = 0.04528, which corresponds to a light travel time of about 0.6 billion years. For comparison, the quasar on the right has a redshift of 3.979 and a light travel time of 11.5 billion years. Credit DES Collaboration/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M.

The Dark Energy Survey publishes final results from the largest, in-depth and uniform sample of supernovae

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Among the observations of about two million distant galaxies, the researchers found several thousand supernovae, and this is the largest and deepest sample of supernovae ever obtained with a single telescope. The scientists then used advanced machine learning techniques to help classify the supernovae
This image, taken by astronomers using the dark energy camera on the 4-meter Victor M. Blanco at the Cerro Tulolo Inter-American Observatory captures the galaxy NGC 1566 as it spins and throws its arms through space. The spiral galaxy whose popular name is the Spanish Dancer is often studied by astronomers who study galaxy groups, stars of different ages and galactic black holes. Credit: Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

The Spanish Dancer Galaxy swirls into view

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The image was taken for the DES (Dark Energy Survey) project funded by the US Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation and whose goal is to discover the nature of dark energy by mapping millions of galaxies. The photo was taken by the camera specially designed for DES and operated between 2013 and 2019
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