Hamsa and Thanu Padmanabhan have been working on this for three years

Two of the most mysterious numbers in the universe have now been explained by a Pune-based father-daughter physicist duo. These numbers relate to the two mysteries that have intrigued cosmologists for decades - the first is connected to the small fluctuations at the genesis of the universe, while the other is about the future of the cosmos, which continues to expand as it is stretched by 'dark energy' (force that is thought to be pulling galaxies apart).