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Dark energy
Astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter and his colleagues discovered that the expansion of the Universe is speeding up - a finding that goes against what was predicted. It was thought that the gravitational pull of all the matter in the Universe would slow down its expansion. This led scientists to propose a new, as-yet unexplained process called dark energy.
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