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'The models were right': Astronomers find 'missing' matter linking four galaxy clusters (phys.org)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Dark energy is basically a placeholder name. We have no direct evidence of it, but we indirectly know it has to exist due to other gravitational effects. As soon as we understand what it is the term "dark energy" will probably be replaced with whatever we discover to cause the observables currently attributed to dark energy, as dark energy is basically scientist for "no fucking idea why we observe these effects, but we do observe them". I'm not currently an astrophysicist but I spent time during undergrad as a research assistant on a LIGO project