This is what led to the "Hubble Tension" in astrophysics and cosmology, and the theory of Dark Energy (DE) as a possible means of explaining the discrepancy. The latter is argued in a recent study by researchers from the University of Chicago based on data obtained by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). As they explained in an interview with UChicago Physical Science:The goal of this study is to compare the predictions of a physical model for evolving dark energy with the latest data sets and to infer the physical properties of dark energy from this comparison. The evolving dark energy 'model' used in most previous data analyses is just a mathematical formula that isn't constrained to behave as physical models do. In our paper, we directly compare physics-based models for evolving dark energy to the data and find that these models describe the current data better than the standard, non-evolving dark energy model.