New DESI Results Hint at Time-varying Dark Energy

March 20, 2025

Enrique Paillas, UArizona postdoc, discussed results at APS Meeting, Anaheim

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Mayall 4-Meter Telescope

Credit: DESI Collaboration/DOE/KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/L. Tyas

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Collaboration has published new results (see links below) expanding previous results suggesting that dark energy is not a constant force but may evolve over time. The results are from the first three-years of DESI data, spanning 15 million galaxies and quasars and using the largest 3-D map of our universe to understand the influence of dark energy.

Enrique Paillas, Cosmology and Data Analysis Fellow, discussed the results at the American Physical Society Meeting (Anaheim, CA). See NYT article for more.

DESI Collaboration Publication Guide provides overview and links to the publications.