Dark Matter in the Presence of Dark Energy

The article considers the issue of changes in the total energy of baryonic objects and their systems in the presence of dark energy, whose carrier, by definition, interacts with all baryonic objects. It is emphasized that dark energy was discovered due to such interaction that accelerates the universe’s expansion. Since dark energy (dark energy carrier) is uniformly distributed, the physical consequences of interaction between the dark energy carrier and baryonic matter are considered at all hierarchical levels of baryonic structures. Drawing on the second law of thermodynamics, the author concludes that under the effect of dark energy, the energy of all baryonic systems gradually increases and their stability declines while the virial value becomes positive and continues to grow for any structures considered to be stable. A similar analysis performed for atomic nuclei reveals that over time, nuclear binding energy decreases, nuclear stability declines, and the nuclear mass increases. This effect gives a new perspective on Ambartsumian’s hypothesis about the existence of superdense matter clumps in the nuclei of stars and galaxies and enables its new interpretation.