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dark energy

A hypothetical form of energy that permeates all space and tends to cause the universe to expand by exerting a gravitational repulsion, countering ordinary gravitational attraction. Quintessence and the vacuum energy represented by the cosmological constant are possible forms of dark energy.

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dark energy

(Astronomy) astronomy unobserved energy whose existence is proposed to account for the observed acceleration in the expansion of the universe

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