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Study: Dark matter doesn't exist, the universe is 27B years old


A study from the University of Ottawa suggests we might not need dark matter or dark energy to explain the workings of the universe.

By considering that constants might change and that light could lose energy over time, this model offers alternative explanations for observations that have puzzled scientists for decades. Back in the 1930s, an astronomer named Fritz Zwicky noticed that galaxies in a cluster were moving in ways that didn’t match up with the visible mass. “The study’s findings confirm our previous work, which suggested that the universe is 26.7 billion years old, negating the necessity for dark matter’s existence,” he explains.

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