{"id":44058,"date":"2010-08-20T03:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/20\/astronomers-uncover-fate-of-universe\/"},"modified":"2010-08-20T03:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T03:24:00","slug":"astronomers-uncover-fate-of-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/20\/astronomers-uncover-fate-of-universe.html","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Uncover &#8216;Fate of Universe&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU; font-size: 10.5pt\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">A &#8220;galactic lens&#8221; has revealed that the Universe will probably expand forever, reports BBC News.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Astronomers used the way that light from distant stars was distorted by a huge galactic cluster known as Abell 1689 to work out the amount of dark energy in the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Dark energy is a mysterious force that speeds up the expansion of the Universe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Understanding the distribution of this force revealed that the likely fate of the Universe was to keep on expanding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">It will eventually become a cold, dead wasteland, researchers say.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">The study, conducted by an international team led by Professor Eric Jullo of Nasa&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, is published in the journal Science.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;galactic lens&#8221; has revealed that the Universe will probably expand forever, according to a study conducted by an&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[14085,14084,14082,14083],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}