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Gravity can exist without mass, dark matter could be myth: Study (interestingengineering.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The question is what exactly dark matter is, nobody knows at this point. We have a bunch of data and a lot of different ideas, but nothing that neatly explains everything.

The point was that the publication was questioning whether dark matter exists. It exists for sure, there is nobody who has seriously looked into it and thinks it doesn't exist. We don't know what exactly it is, but it exists. And we also know for sure the name sucks, but hey that's the name we're stuck with.

Like what the other comment said, dark matter is an observation, not a theory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No ‘Dark matter’ is a theory trying to explain an observation based on our incomplete understanding of gravity. Same as ‘dark energy’. They saw something, couldn’t explain it and came up with a theory of ‘something’ rather than simply saying ‘We have no clue. That shit don’t fit’