Dhaka, Oct. 3 -- Anowar Jaman Shajib, an associate member of the Center for Astronomy, Space Science and Astrophysics (CASSA) at Independent University Bangladesh (IUB), has authored a new research paper challenging assumptions about the nature of dark energy, a force that is theorised to drive the expansion of the universe.

The paper, titled "Scalar‑field dark energy models: Current and forecast constraints", was published in the journal Physical Review D on Sept 8. Anowar, an Einstein Fellow at the University of Chicago, authored the paper alongside Joshua A Frieman, an emeritus professor at the university.

"It presents evidence suggesting that dark energy may not be a constant after all, opening up new possibilities for underst...