Just because dark energy is the leading explanation for the accelerating universe, it doesn't mean anyone actually understands what it is.

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。

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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。

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Three cosmologists have Shared a Nobel prize in physics for their discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

因为发现宇宙膨胀加速现象，三位研究宇宙的科学家被授予诺贝尔物理学奖。

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When it's bolted onto the Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tolodo Observatory in Chile next month the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera will survey some 300 million galaxies in the southern sky, measuring the speed at which they are moving apart with phenomenal accuracy, and giving the best description yet of the accelerating expansion of the Universe.

BBC: Getting the measure of dark energy

The list of top discoveries made with Hubble reads like the hit parade of astronomy: a mysterious new "dark energy" causing the accelerating expansion of the universe, distances to other galaxies, the supermassive black holes at their centers, the age of the universe, planet formation around other stars, searches for signs of extraterrestrial life -- and the list goes on.

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Riess shared this year's prize with with fellow American Saul Perlmutter and the Australian Brian Schmidt for the discovery, back in 1998, that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating.

BBC: Getting the measure of dark energy