Einstein once called the cosmological constant his “greatest blunder,” but modern discoveries of the universe’s accelerating ...

The theorists predict that the beginning of the end will be in about 10 billion years — less than the present age of the ...

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.

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 ...

Einstein first said there was a constant energy field when he created his first cosmological model derived from General Relativity in 1917, but his solution was neither expanding nor contracting.

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

Instead of relying on that cosmological constant, Lombriser says that Einstein's original theory that the universe is flat and static may have actually been correct and that it could be particles ...

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.

Einstein's theory, which describes gravity as distortions of space and time, included a mathematical element known as a Cosmological Constant.

For Einstein’s cosmological constant to be correct, the w-parameter must equal -1, and so far, the results of the ESSENCE project seem to confirm that it is indeed very close to -1.

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 ...