而暗能量的首要证据也并非来自宇宙微波背景。
And the prime evidence for dark energy doesn't come from the cosmic microwave background, either.
更惊人的是，测量显示暗能量占宇宙物质的74%。
Even more surprising, measurements show that dark energy accounts for about 74 percent of the substance of the universe.
缺乏对暗能量的完善解释似乎并未浇熄科学家的热情。
The lack of a good explanation for dark energy hasn't seemed to dampen scientists' enthusiasm for it.
暗能量是一种神秘的力，它使得我们的宇宙加速膨胀。
Dark energy is the name given to whatever mysterious force is causing the universe to accelerate as it expands.
爱因斯坦认为存在一个宇宙常数来填补现在暗能量的位置。
Einstein proposed the existence of something he called the cosmological constant, to fulfil the role now assigned to dark energy.
对暗能量分布的认知告诉天文学家宇宙将继续无限制地变大。
Knowing the distribution of dark energy tells astronomers that the Universe will continue to get bigger indefinitely.
神秘的暗能量充满在宇宙中，把其他物质挤向两边。
It's a mysterious entity that fills the universe and pushes things apart.
科学家将这个现象归因于暗能量——与万有引力相抵触的一种力。
Scientists attribute the phenomenon to dark energy, a force that repels gravity.
这一发现可能能够对于解释宇宙中更奇异的存在——暗能量有所帮助。
The finding may help shed light on an even more bizarre aspect of the universe? Dark energy.
另外的大约四分之三是“暗能量”，它产生了促使宇宙不断膨胀的力量。
Around three-quarters is "dark energy", which creates a force that is speeding up the expansion of the universe.
暗能量产生一种与万有引力相反的排斥力，这种排斥力推动着宇宙膨胀。
Dark energy creates a repulsive force that counters gravity and is now tearing apart space-time.
暗能量应该有很多，最新的判断结果是：宇宙的70%都由暗能量构成。
And there seems to be plenty of it: recent estimates say that the universe is more than 70 percent dark energy.
但宇宙的阴暗面(暗物质、暗能量)的本质究竟是什么，各方争论至今。
Debate about the exact nature of the dark side of the Universe - the dark matter and dark energy - continues to this day.
明显地是，暗能量不会超出目前的强度，以避免其阻止物质混合形成星系。
Evidently, dark energy can't have been much stronger than it is today lest it prevent matter from coalescing to form galaxies.
我们有过各种各样的惊喜：暗物质，暗能量，宇宙膨胀，诸如此类的事情。
We've had all kinds of surprises: dark matter, dark energy, inflation, things like that.
虽然暗能量导致宇宙加速碰撞，这并不意味着人们的确知道暗能量是什么。
Just because dark energy is the leading explanation for the accelerating universe, it doesn't mean anyone actually understands what it is.
一些研究者已经开始利用它来解释暗物质和暗能量这两个伴生的宇宙学之谜。
Some researchers have started using it to explain away the twin cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.
暗能量的真实本性仍然是个未解之谜，从理论上解释观测到的性状已经失败了。
Dark energy's true nature remains a mystery. Theoretical attempts to account for its observed properties have foundered.
在贯穿宇宙的历史中，暗能量是否保持它的值对于它的本性来说是很重要的信息。
Whether dark energy has retained its value throughout the history of the universe is an important clue to its nature.
迄今为止，暗能量研究人员面临的最大挑战是把观测到的现象与理论紧密联系起来。
So far, one of the biggest challenges for dark energy researchers is marrying observations to theory.
“例如，在超新星测量方面具有优势的哈勃太空望远镜已被用于暗能量项目，”他说。
"For one, the Hubble Space Telescope has weighed in on dark energy by virtue of the measurements of supernovae," he said.
这项工作成了暗能量（这是推动宇宙向外加速的神秘力量）确实存在的一个重要证据。
That work became an important piece of evidence that dark energy — the mysterious force propelling the acceleration of the universe outward — actually exists.
这场较量的目的是理解暗物质和暗能量——在宇宙中占95%却无法用标准模型解释。
This is to pin down dark matter and dark energy-the 95% of the universe the Standard Model doesn't explain.
这些结果可以帮助天文学家更好地理解暗物质，以及更加扑朔迷离的暗能量。
The findings could help astronomers understand more about dark matter, as well as its even stranger sibling? Dark energy.
他们还能通过测量空间几何推断出宇宙中能量和物质的总密度，并推算暗能量的总和。
They can also measure the geometry of space. That allows them to deduce the total density of energy and matter in the universe and infer the amount of dark energy.
如果情况属实，这可能意味着波纹明显较小，这意味着，暗物质和暗能量可能并不存在。
If true this could mean that the ripples are significantly smaller, which could imply that dark matter and dark energy are not present after all.
“今天，我们了解到74%的宇宙由暗能量组成，”宣布获奖前，里斯在自己的网站写道。
"Today, we know that 74 percent of the universe consists of this dark energy," Riess wrote on his website before the award was announced.
大量的天文观测将会探查使宇宙延展的暗能量，即使再花上十数年才有可能搞清它的真面目。
Numerous astronomical surveys will probe space-stretching dark energy, although figuring out what it is could take much longer than another decade.
从这个角度看，我们周围的这些平面空间可能是暗能量的一个来源，而正是它让宇宙加速膨胀。
From this point of view these flat Spaces around us turn out to be one possible source of dark energy for the accelerating expansion of the Universe.
从这个角度看，我们周围的这些平面空间可能是暗能量的一个来源，而正是它让宇宙加速膨胀。
From this point of view these flat Spaces around us turn out to be one possible source of dark energy for the accelerating expansion of the Universe.
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