[friendly]

I read where there were less ultra distant galaxies than expected in the image. God knows (literally) what that means. My guess is that it is a manifestation of the escalating acceleration (actually expansion of space) under the influence of the dark energy which dominates the cosmos.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

...under the influence of the dark energy which dominates the cosmos.

You rang?

[aruanan]

... under the influence of the dark energy [sic] which dominates the cosmos.

Dark matter: an example of a secondary theory invoked to supply the third leg to prop up a primary theory found incapable of standing on its own two feet.

"Why is there otherwise invisible dark matter? Because there's too little observable matter to explain why the cosmos behaves as we observe it to behave in the context of what we believe to be its nature. And since our beliefs about the nature of the universe can't possibly be so fundamentally mistaken, dark matter--which we don't observe--must, by necessity, exist in sufficient quantities to make our calculations about what we do observe come out right."