First year of DESI results unveil new clues about dark energy

Researchers at The Ohio State University played a major role in analyzing the first year of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument’s survey into the history of the universe.

With 5,000 tiny robots in a mountaintop telescope, the .

Beyond dark energy, DESI has also been used to study many other cosmological mysteries important for physics, such as the mass of important particles called and Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. As those instruments collect more precise data...