To blue and black speckled fans originate from the top and bottom of this image and meet in the middle.

Tantalizing Hints That Dark Energy is Evolving — New Results and Data Released by the DESI Project

The DESI collaboration has published a new analysis of dark energy using their first three years of collected data, which ...
Artist’s illustration of dwarf galaxy with active galactic nucleus

DESI Uncovers 300 New Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Plus 2500 New Active Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies

Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument’s early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and ...
The sparkling band of the Milky Way Galaxy backdrops the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope, located at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) near Tucson, Arizona.

DESI Provides Best Test Yet of How Gravity Behaves at Cosmic Scales

Researchers have used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) to map nearly six million galaxies across 11 billion years of ...
New Siena Galaxy Atlas Delivers Improved Measurements of Almost 400,000 Nearby Galaxies

New Siena Galaxy Atlas Delivers Improved Measurements of Almost 400,000 Nearby Galaxies

Astronomers have created a detailed atlas of almost 400,000 galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood. The Siena Galaxy Atlas was compiled ...