• Rugnjr@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      Yes, that’s explicitly what that is. Dark matter/energy is just the name given to the phenomenon that measurements suggest there must be something else we can’t detect yet

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        Or maybe we can detect that nothing is there and the formulas are just wrong. But it’s a lot easier to make up invisible matter than rework the formulas.