In 1998, scientists discovered that the expansion of the universe has been accelerating.What force is causing this phenomena?

The observed acceleration of the universe’s expansion is attributed to dark energy, a name for the still-mysterious component driving that accelerated expansion. Hubble’s law describes how galaxies’ recession speeds relate to their distances, while the Doppler effect concerns changes in waves due to motion; neither is the force causing the acceleration.

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