Dark Cosmology and Its Origins

This article reviews the standard model of cosmology: an expanding universe whose expansion is now accelerating, driven by dark energy (equivalent in practice to endowing the vacuum with a constant uniform energy density). Structure in the universe is generated by the matter that can clump, where gr...

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Main Author: Peacock, John A. 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2026
In: Zygon
Year: 2026, Volume: 60, Issue: 4, Pages: 1051-1073
Further subjects:B Cosmology
B Dark Energy
B Dark Matter
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