All Things Space, UFOs, etc.Dark energy might be fading – so what does that mean? Posted on July 25, 2025 by Administrator Over the past two years, scientists using the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT) have mapped about 1/25 of the sky using 16,000 ultra-sensitive millimeter-wave detectors. The data offer new details about the early universe and help scientists probe the nature of dark energy, the mysterious force driving cosmic acceleration.