Four members of the Dark Energy Survey Collaboration discuss the latest findings. This talk is based on these two papers on the arXiv:

Main talk content: [2503.06712] Dark Energy Survey: implications for cosmological expansion models from the final DES Baryon Acoustic Oscillation and Supernova data

Newly released paper: [2601.14864] Dark Energy Survey: DESI-Independent Angular BAO Measurement

The authors:
Jessie Muir
Juan Mena-Fernández
Santiago Avila
Maria Vincenzi