BALTIMORE, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- The Hubble space telescope has reportedly provided evidence of an ever-expanding universe and backs up an Einstein theory.
In what some are calling a landmark study, a team led by Adam Riess and Louis-Gregory Strolger of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore has announced finding the most reliable measure yet of the mysterious "dark energy" that's pushing everything in the universe apart.
Captured from the light of exploding stars, the data suggest dark energy is pushing at a nearly constant rate -- just as Albert Einstein predicted in 1920, the Baltimore Sun said Saturday.
If those findings hold up, it means the universe will expand forever, the study says. Whatever galaxies, stars, planets and people are still around billions of years from now won't be ripped apart by runaway acceleration of that expansion -- or crushed by its reversal into a "big crunch."
