Berkeley Lab has received funding to design an innovative mirror system for Spec-S5, a premier cosmology experiment that will see first light in the 2030s
Our understanding of the universe and the effects of dark energy are progressing rapidly thanks to groundbreaking observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a project led by Berkeley Lab at the Mayall Telescope in Arizona. Recent results from DESI suggest that the dark energy accelerating the expansion of the universe may be due to a dynamic field that is changing with time.
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