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Originally Posted by byronm
This doesn't compute 
Isn't the foundation of dark matter/dark energy simply matter/energy that "should be there" but we couldn't see/explain? If we find missing matter isn't that a point for gravity and one less point for that dark stuff? |
Yes it does. Out of the "visible in principle" baryonic matter only some of it is
actually visible to us. The rest is too far away or obscured or whatever. This paper was just describing finding some of the previous type of material which hadn't been observed but as
parejkoj says was expected to be there. It does not change the amount of non-baryonic "not visible even in principle " matter in the universe required to explain the observations.
I agree though that they are really bad names - if just for the fact they have chronically confused the general public.