Nobel Prize in Physics goes to the discoverers of dark energy

On Sunday, I still meant that it slowly is time to give the Nobel Prize in Physics to astronomers . And the Nobel Prize committee has kept it! I thought though that he will be awarded for the discovery of extrasolar planets - but the price to Saul Perlmutter , Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess is awarded , is not bad either! He has them

for the discovery of accelerated expansion of the Universe by observing distant supernovae

So that a discovery is meant that we know today usually called "dark energy". The dark energy is a fascinating thing. Something must exist in the universe because it brings it to expand faster than we expect. The measurements (which are the exact measurements for now the prize was awarded) have shown that this "something" about 75 percent of the total matter / energy balance of the universe must make! That's a pretty startling insight, and moreover one that is now on has been confirmed several independent measurements . So absolutely worthy to receive a Nobel Prize!

I've already explained earlier in detail what you must understand by the dark energy. For simplicity, I'll repeat it here now.

About dark matter and the reasons why we know that it exists even though we can not see them, I've written some time ago schonmal .

But the dark matter is not the only dark in the universe. Since 1998, we are also aware of the dark energy . And that is as interesting and mysterious as the dark matter.
No invention

Many people mistakenly think yes, dark matter and dark energy would only be something, what would the astronomers devised "to save their theories" around. That's right, of course not - in science thinks it is not so easy sometimes just out of something. Not even the dark energy.

Just as the dark matter have been inferred from observations of their existence. In spring 1998, researchers were led by Australian Brian Schmidt engaged in observational data from supernovae to analyze.