The Origin of the Source of Dark Energy of the Universe Discovered by Researchers

Breaking News, England – Dark energy makes up most of the universe, but almost nothing is known about the origins of the Dark Energy that surrounds us.

Reported from Dailymail.co.uk on March 04, the unusual ‘something’ rated as one of the great mysteries of cosmology was believed to be an unknown force pushing objects apart stronger than gravity and causing the accelerated expansion of the universe.

Now, scientists from Imperial College London believe they finally have an explanation for the unknown source of energy: black holes.

Dr Chris Pearson, one of the study’s authors, said: “If this theory holds, it will revolutionize the whole of cosmology.”

“Finally we have a solution to the origin of dark energy that has puzzled cosmologists and theoretical physicists for more than 20 years.”

Astronomers have always believed that Dark Energy could revolutionize physics as we know it, because its discovery 20 years ago put Albert Einstein’s research in jeopardy.

However, the legendary physicist can rest easy for now, as an international team of researchers has found the first evidence that Dark Energy actually fits into his Theory of Relativity.

The main stumbling block to Einstein science is black holes and how their immense gravity can be countered by a secret force that expands the universe has been dismissed by experts at the Universities of Hawaii and Imperial.

They say that the General Theory of Relativity is correct because black holes actually contain Dark Energy, or energy from outer space that Einstein originally predicted.

It also means that nothing ‘new’ or undiscovered has to be added to our picture of the universe to explain the ‘lost’ 68 percent equated to Dark Energy.

Not only that, the idea of ​​a black hole having a ‘singularity’ at its center where nothing not even light can escape, is also questionable.

The new theory provides a way to “avoid” this math problem, the researchers say, by making the singularity idea “go away.”

Basically, the Big Bang theory of the creation of our universe originally predicted that its expansion would slow down or even start to shrink due to gravitational pull.

But in 1998, astronomers were surprised to find that not only was the universe continuing to expand, this expansion was also accelerating.

To explain this discovery, it was proposed that ‘Dark Energy’ was responsible for pushing objects apart more strongly than gravity.

This is related to Einstein’s proposed but later discarded concept of a ‘cosmological constant’ which defies gravity and keeps the universe from collapsing.

But black holes pose the problem that their incredibly strong gravity is hard to resist, especially at the center, where everything appears to disintegrate in a phenomenon called a ‘singularity’.

To dig deeper into this problem, a team of 17 researchers from nine countries studied the nine billion years of black hole evolution.

They observed ancient and dormant galaxies and found that black holes gained mass in a manner consistent with those containing vacuum energy, or Dark Energy.

In fact, the size of the universe at various points in time closely matches the mass of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy.

In other words, the amount of Dark Energy in the universe can be accounted for by the black hole’s vacuum energy meaning that black holes are the source of dark energy.