Dark Energy – “Galaxy of Horrors” poster (English)
![This poster pictures an ominous, green bat that emerges from the cosmos, pushing objects like galaxies and stars further apart into the void of outer space.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2306_dark_energy_detail.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
NASA/JPL-Caltech
October 26, 2021
Credit | NASA/JPL-Caltech |
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Historical Date | October 26, 2021 |
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This bone-chilling force will leave you shivering alone in terror!
An unseen power is prowling throughout the cosmos, driving the universe to expand at a quickening rate. This relentless pressure, called dark energy, is nothing like dark matter, that mysterious material only revealed by its gravitational pull. Dark energy offers a bigger fright: pushing galaxies farther apart over trillions of years, leaving the universe to an inescapable, freezing death in the pitch black expanse of outer space.