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Gary Hill, HETDEX Project Scientist, explains how astronomers will look for dark energy when they're not sure what it looks like. Play video

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Quintessence

A proposed new field that would account for dark energy. Magnetic, electric, and gravitational fields already permeate the universe, and some scientists suggest that dark energy could be in the form of a yet-undetected field.

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