---
title: "Dark Energy Could Be Hiding In The “Cosmic Void” Between Galaxies"
description: "The universe is speckled with voids that are totally empty, except for the dark energy that's pushing galaxies apart. That's where scientists should look."
date: "2019-05-31"
modified: "2019-05-31"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski.md"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/cosmic-void-galaxies-dark-energy"
categories:
  - "Energy"
  - "Off-World"
  - "Science & Energy"
  - "Space"
tags:
  - "dark energy"
  - "space"
  - "the digest"
---

# Dark Energy Could Be Hiding In The “Cosmic Void” Between Galaxies

![The universe is speckled with voids that are totally empty, except for the dark energy that's pushing galaxies apart. That's where scientists should look.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cosmic-void-galaxies-dark-energy.png>)
*\<em\>Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA\</em\>*

## Void Gazing

Scientists believe the universe is expanding, pushed apart by a mysterious force called dark energy that makes up [over two-thirds](<https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-dark-energy>) of the cosmos.

Now, if scientists want to find it, they may have to look into the all-but-empty voids in the universe, Ohio State University astrophysicist Paul Sutter [writes in *Space.com*](<https://www.space.com/why-avoid-the-cosmic-voids.html>). Sutter argues that the cosmic web — that's the gigantic, clustered megastructure made of, well, everything out there — is so [full of other stuff](<#-discovers-remnants-other-galaxies-own>) that scientists would be hard-pressed to find the signal of dark energy through all the other noise.

## Big Dark Energy

Sutter explains how in the early days of the universe, luminous matter — the stuff you can see and feel — and dark matter would have clumped together, leaving vast empty spaces full of dark energy in their wake.

That would mean that it's those empty spaces that are [pushing the universe apart](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/new-theory-universe-bubble-inflated-dark-energy.md>). So, according to Sutter's reasoning, that's where astronomers should set their sights if they want to understand and maybe observe the mysterious force.

**READ MORE:** [Listen to the Void: Why Cosmic Nothingness Has So Much to Say](<https://www.space.com/why-avoid-the-cosmic-voids.html>) \[*Space.com*\]

**More on the cosmos:** *[Bizarre New Data Suggests That Dark Energy Is Getting Stronger](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/dark-energy-getting-stronger.md>)*

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://x.com/danrobitzski>)

## More

- [Huge Empty Voids in Universe May Be Generating Dark Energy, Scientists Say](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/empty-voids-dark-energy.md>)
- [NASA Says It’s Just Gonna Stare Into Cosmic Voids for a While](<https://futurism.com/space/nasa-cosmic-voids.md>)
- [20 Percent of Universe’s Normal Matter Exists in Dark Cosmic Voids](<https://futurism.com/20-percent-universes-normal-matter-exists-dark-cosmic-voids.md>)
- [All the Missing Dark Energy Hiding in Black Holes, Scientists Say](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/dark-energy-hiding-in-black-holes.md>)
- [New “Chameleon Theory” Could Explain Dark Energy, How Galaxies Formed](<https://futurism.com/chameleon-theory-dark-energy-galaxies.md>)
- [Physicists: Fake Black Holes Could Be Pulling the Universe Apart](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/fake-black-holes-pulling-universe-apart.md>)
- [This Dark Energy Discovery Could Rewrite Physics](<https://futurism.com/this-dark-energy-discovery-could-rewrite-physics.md>)
- [Dark Energy Finally Measured Alongside Record-Breaking Map of 1.2 Million Galaxies](<https://futurism.com/dark-energy-finally-measured-alongside-record-breaking-map-of-1-2-million-galaxies.md>)