Professor Carlos Frenk
Durham scientists part of new space mission to find dark energy. Scientists at Durham University will be part of a major new space mission to discover the nature of two mysterious substances believed to make up a large part of our Universe. The Euclid project will aim to uncover the secrets of dark energy and dark matter using one of the largest optical digital cameras ever put into Space. Researchers from Durham's Institute for Computational Cosmology will join colleagues from eight other UK universities in the project. They will be making computer simulations which model how structures in the Universe grew, in order to predict what Euclid might see and to help to design and plan the mission. Current theory suggests that dark energy and dark matter dominate the ordinary matter of stars and planets. In particular, dark energy has been proposed to explain the observation that, contrary to expectations, the expansion of the Universe seems to be faster now than it was billions of years ago.
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