South Pole Telescope (IMAGE)

University of Chicago

South Pole Telescope

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Since 2007 UChicago researchers have used the South Pole Telescope in their attempt to help solve the cosmological mystery of dark energy. Little is known about this force, other than that it works against gravity and appears to have sped up the expansion of the universe.

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Keith Vanderline

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