DARKER

Accurate constraints on dark matter and dark energy
in the era of Precision Cosmology

This project aims at determining the nature of dark energy and dark matter, which together make 95% of the Universe and they are still unknown. DARKER is expected to achieve these goals by significantly enlarging the number of strong lensing systems (at all scales) with the first-ever systematic search in the time domain. Gravitational lensing is one of the most powerful tools for constraining the “dark Universe”, as it can directly infer dark energy (via gravitational time delays) and dark matter (via low-mass lenses).

DARKER is funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (Fondo Italiano per la Scienza FIS2023-01611) and hosted at the INAF Institute for Radioastronomy (Bologna, Italy).