Modified Gravity and Dark Energy Theories
A special issue of Universe (ISSN 2218-1997). This special issue belongs to the section "Gravitation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 1296
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the past two decades, tremendous experimental and theoretical progress has been made, deepening our understanding of cosmic acceleration, but not solving its riddle. In cosmology, a widely used classification among physical models for acceleration distinguishes between dark energy and modified gravity. In this Special Issue, we will publish a thoroughly comprehensive survey of recent works on dark energy studies and modified theories of gravity and their astrophysical, gravitational, and cosmological consequence, as well as their phenomenology and characteristic observable signatures. The papers will cover dark energy models, all kinds of modified gravities, cosmic observational, gravitational, or theoretical constraints, black hole and stellar solutions in modified gravities, and so on.
Dr. Changjun Gao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- dark energy
- modified gravity theories
- black hole solutions
- exact solutions
- black hole thermodynamics
- nature of spacetime
- black hole physics
- gravitational waves in modified gravity theories
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