Naked Science Forum
Non Life Sciences => Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology => Topic started by: billy jaguar on 06/02/2011 01:26:05
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It doesn't have a black body radiation at least?
Hawing radiation possibly, but that's not black?
I see all sorts of possibilities here :)
"The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of very distant supernovae that showed that, a long time ago, the Universe was actually expanding more slowly than it is today. So the expansion of the Universe has not been slowing due to gravity, as everyone thought, it has been accelerating. No one expected this, no one knew how to explain it. But something was causing it.
Eventually theorists came up with three sorts of explanations. Maybe it was a result of a long-discarded version of Einstein's theory of gravity, one that contained what was called a "cosmological constant." Maybe there was some strange kind of energy-fluid that filled space. Maybe there is something wrong with Einstein's theory of gravity and a new theory could include some kind of field that creates this cosmic acceleration. Theorists still don't know what the correct explanation is, but they have given the solution a name. It is called dark energy. " From NASA (http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-dark-energy/)