IUB researcher co-authors ‘groundbreaking’ paper on future of the universe

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 understanding the fate of the universe,” IBU said in a...