<ul><li>Researchers at the University of Canterbury suggest that dark energy, the force believed to be responsible for the universe's expansion, might not exist after all.</li><li>Using improved data from supernovae, they found that the universe's expansion is not uniform and can be explained by the 'timescape model' which considers how gravity affects time.</li><li>This new approach may help solve the 'Hubble tension' and explain the varying behavior of dark energy over time.</li><li>Further data from advanced space telescopes will be crucial in confirming this alternative explanation of the universe's expansion.</li></ul>

Dark energy might not exist—new study offers a different view of the universe’s expansion

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