You're looking at the largest 3D map of our universe ever made, which helped cosmologists, including those at UCSC, see that the universe might not be expanding the way we thought. And that changes everything. A group of cosmologists, including some at UC Santa Cruz, might be closing in on a deeper understanding of the nature of the universe thanks to a new analysis that suggests that dark energy—widely thought to be a “cosmological constant”—might be evolving in unexpected ways indicating that