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Re:New dark matter map reveals cosmic mystery by ASalazarMX on Thursday May 27, 2021 @08:16PM (#27310283)
> The unnamed phenomenon were some astronomic bodies behave as though a vast quantity of matter were affecting them but that matter can't be otherwise detected or identified"

How about "missing matter"? To non-astronomers, dark matter sounds like it has already been found and it doesn't emit light.

Re:New dark matter map reveals cosmic mystery by tcskeptic on Thursday May 27, 2021 @08:54PM (#27310542)
It's not missing though, is it? It has the characteristic of having effects of mass but not being otherwise observable.
Re:New dark matter map reveals cosmic mystery by ASalazarMX on Thursday May 27, 2021 @09:22PM (#27310724)
Other comments have suggested better names, based on the fact that we don't even know for sure that it's matter, just that gravity at large scale doesn't behave like it should.
Re:New dark matter map reveals cosmic mystery by wumpus on Thursday May 27, 2021 @11:13PM (#27311351)
If you say "missing matter", the thing most physicists think of first is probably missing anti-matter, and then missing baryons. Not dark matter.

It's a bit late to suggest new nomenclature for something that's been around for many decades.