While gravity is a force that attracts objects with mass, dark energy (or the accelerated expansion of the universe) is not. However, I have found numerous articles, forums, questions in the stack network... where people seem to say that if you get further from a gravitational source (e.g. a galaxy) there would be a point where the influence of gravity (attractive) and dark energy (repulsive) would be balanced out (sometimes even using the term "force"). But again, dark energy is not a force (as said in [here] and [also here]). So what is happening here? Is there such a point? If not, then, why are there so many people saying that there is? This is confusing... PS: Examples of people mentioning a point where there is a balance between Dark Energy and gravity: https://old.reddit.com/r/cosmology/comments/16x0uud/what_effects_does_dark_energy_have_in_the/ https://imgur.io/IMUhq https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/422/4/2945/1048646?login=false https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1433 https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/54826/dark-energy-affecting-the-ejection-and-infall-of-material-in-galaxies [here]: https://www.quora.com/At-what-distance-does-dark-energy-begin-to-overpower-gravity/answer/Viktor-T-Toth-1?ch=15&oid=14627730&share=fc8bdfa7&srid=hX3S3&target_type=answer [also here]: https://www.quora.com/Can-I-consider-dark-energy-as-anti-gravity-If-it-is-a-YES-what-is-the-current-rate-of-the-dark-energy-in-expanding-the-universe/answer/Viktor-T-Toth-1?ch=15&oid=19342540&share=66fba521&srid=hX3S3&target_type=answer