This may be an oversimplification but as I understand it, the galaxies that we can observe throughout the universe are unsurprisingly moving away from the location of the big bang. Not only are they moving but accelerating as they go. This acceleration caused astronomers and astrophysicists to invent something called dark energy in order to account for the acceleration. They believe that this energy is spread throughout the universe and that it is causing the acceleration . Apparently there is no actual evidence of dark energy and it remains just a theory.
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