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A new study out of Oxford University is questioning the accelerated expansion theory that says dark energy is driving the expansion of the universe.

According to the study, accelerated expansion theories are based on an unobserved model, opening up the possibilities to new theories on our expanding universe.

Five years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three astronomers for their discovery, in the late 1990s that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace. 

The theory of an accelerated expansion was developed based on analysis of Type Ia supernovae – the spectacular thermonuclear explosions of dying stars – picked up by the Hubble space telescope and large ground-based telescopes.

The Oxford team led by Professor Subir Sarkar, a fellow at the Neils Bohr Institute, is challenging this Nobel-winning idea. After analyzing a catalog of 740 Type Ia supernovae, ten times more than the original 1990s sample size, the researchers said the accelerated expansion theory falls short of scientific accuracy, according to the study published in Scientific Reports.

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“A more sophisticated theoretical framework accounting for the observation that the universe is not exactly homogeneous and that its matter content may not behave as an ideal gas — two key assumptions of standard cosmology — may well be able to account for all observations without requiring dark energy,” Sarkar said, according to Oxford.