It's been doing so since the big bang — about 13.7 billion years ago — so you've had plenty of time to get in the loop. Or that dark matter has some kind of properties we understand even less than its other properties. “You start at two ends, and you expect to meet in the middle if all of your drawings are right and your measurements are right,” Riess said. [Could black holes be the dark matter everyone has been looking for?] But according to new research, that relentless, ever-quickening expansion is happening at a rate 5 to 9 percent faster than previously thought.

Source: Washington Post June 03, 2016 13:06 UTC