This image courtesy of Fermilab-US Department of Energy (Dark Energy Survey Collaboration) shows a zoomed-in image from the Dark Energy Camera of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365, in the Fornax cluster of galaxies, which lies about 60 million light years from Earth. Photo: AFP / Fermilab
The universe is lumpier than first thought! New findings from a team of New Zealand scientists shows that the universe does not expand at a constant, flat rate, but in a fluctuating or lumpy way.
The research completely changes the dominant way of thinking about the nature of our universe, previously explained using a theory called 'dark energy'.
Lead researcher Professor David Wiltshire from the University of Canterbury joins Maggie Tweedie to explain.
