Two hundred physicists and astronomers, including Jeffrey Newman and Andrew Zentner of the University of Pittsburgh, are one step closer to a deeper understanding of “dark energy,” the unknown phenomenon causing the expansion of the Universe to accelerate rather than slow down because of gravity.

Astronomers at the University of Pittsburgh have been working on developing a new project known as DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. Today, the U.S. Department of Energy approved the project’s scientific scope, schedule, and funding profile, enabling work on DESI to begin. Read More>