Right now, a few relativistic particles are passing through your head every second at the speed of light. They have more than ten million times more energy than our best particle accelerator can achieve, and scientists still don’t know how nature does that!
Cosmologists Josh Frieman and Risa Wechsler reflect on the Dark Energy Survey, sharing how it’s paving the way for future research at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.