Measurements Support Cosmological Constant
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A dark, unseen energy permeating space is pushing the universe apart just as Einstein predicted it could in 1917, according to striking new measurements of distant exploding stars by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.
The energy, whose source remains unknown, was named the cosmological constant by Einstein. The new observations were led by Dr. Adam Riess at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. Einstein’s steady, unchanging cosmological constant fits the data better than any alternative, Riess said.
