Newswire: 3 Mar 2014 - Berkeley Lab - Standard-Candle Supernovae are Still Standard, but Why?

The Nearby Supernova Factory based at Berkeley Lab shows that Type Ia supernovae have a surprisingly large range of masses - Sixteen years ago two teams of supernova hunters, one led by Saul Perlmutter of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the other by Brian Schmidt of the Australian National University, declared that the expansion of the universe is accelerating - a Nobel Prize-winning discovery tantamount to the discovery of dark energy. Both ...