Mathematicians Explain The Universe’s Expansion Without Dark Matter 0 ▲ Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction 1 hour ago · Science · hide · 0 comments About 25 years ago, astrophysicists noticed that the universe’s expansion is accelerating. To account for this observation, physicists came up with a new type of energy – called dark energy – which supposedly makes up more than 75% of the universe, and also has negative pressure. In a new paper, mathematicians claim that dark energy isn’t needed to explain that accelerating expansion, and No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.