New universe theory suggests galaxies float in vast ocean of ‘dark fluid’

Current scientific theories about the universe only account for roughly five percent of what’s in it. According to a new theory, everything we have observed so far actually floats in a mysterious, theoretical, ‘cosmic soup’.

The remaining 95 percent of the universe, we currently believe, is made up of dark matter or dark energy; theoretical entities that we're only aware of because we have observed how their gravity affects things around them.

In a recently published paper, Oxford astrophysicist Jamie Farnes has proposed that dark energy and dark matter actually combine to form a “dark fluid” with negative mass that fills the universe.

Dark matter theory began development in the 1930s and the more recent dark energy theories began around 1998. These comprise our current version of the Standard Model – also known as the Lambda-CDM model – which is our ‘best guess’ as to what makes up the remaining 95 percent of our universe that we know little to nothing about. Lambda signifies dark energy as a universal constant and CDM stands for Cold Dark Matter.

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Yeah, I've seen those movies and tv shows with black liquidy stuff on - they never turn out well.