The rejection of the Cosmological Constant is at the 97 percent confidence level, which is to say that there is a small chance — three percent — that normal fluctuations in the data can result ...

To force the universe to be static, Einstein tacked on the cosmological constant. Nearly a decade later, another physicist, Edwin Hubble, discovered that our universe is not static, but expanding.

That resurrected the idea of a cosmological constant, introduced by Einstein more than 80 years ago as a "fudge factor" to explain why the universe then appeared to be in equilibrium, rather than ...

Cosmological constant: A term in Einstein's field equations representing an intrinsic energy density filling space homogeneously, often associated with dark energy.

If true, this could overturn our current model of dark energy and cause "Big Crunch" sooner than previously thought. Dark ...

The enigmatic "dark energy" that drives the acceleration of the Universe behaves just like Einstein's famed cosmological constant, according to the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS), an international ...

In 1917 Einstein amended his General Theory of Relativity with a cosmological constant, which, if the value was right, would allow the universe to exist in a perfectly balanced, static state.

They resurrected Einstein’s cosmological constant in the form of dark energy. While dark energy clearly exists and its effects are visible to astronomers, no one knows what causes it or whether ...

The proposed alternative to dark energy is a cosmological constant Λ which, according to quantum-mechanical back-of-the-envelope (but questionable) calculations, should be huge.

A brief history: In 1915, Einstein created the general theory of relativity. The theory describes the motion of objects in the universe and the motion of the universe itself. The theory stated that ...