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Ive read that dark matter is making the universe expand faster than usual. How is that even possible?
 
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cosmicrock said:
Ive read that dark matter is making the universe expand faster than usual. How is that even possible?

They say that dark energy is causing the universe to expand faster. The dark energy is from empty space, and the more the Universe expands the more empty space there is, so there is positive feedback and one would expect instability.
 
Dark matter is not dark energy.
In terms of gravity and the expansion, dark matter acts like regular matter, and pulls things together.
For dark energy, see the post above.
 

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Thread 'Rutgers finds a transparent Einstein Cross - apparently a dark matter "halo".'

The formal paper is here. The Rutgers University news has published a story about an image being closely examined at their New Brunswick campus. Here is an excerpt: Computer modeling of the gravitational lens by Keeton and Eid showed that the four visible foreground galaxies causing the gravitational bending couldn’t explain the details of the five-image pattern. Only with the addition of a large, invisible mass, in this case, a dark matter halo, could the model match the observations...
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