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What Is Dark Matter

Dark matter is the name given to most of the mass in the universe that we cannot see directly. While we cannot observe dark matter, we can detect its gravitational effects, such as the way it helps hold galaxies and galaxy clusters together. Scientists estimate that dark matter makes up around 27% of the universe, yet its exact nature remains a mystery. Researchers around the world are using instruments aboard spacecraft and the International Space Station to search for evidence of dark matter through phenomena like high-energy cosmic rays that may result from dark matter interactions. Unraveling the mystery of dark matter could fundamentally change our understanding of the universe.

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What Is Dark Matter

Dark matter is the name given to most of the mass in the universe that we cannot see directly. While we cannot observe dark matter, we can detect its gravitational effects, such as the way it helps hold galaxies and galaxy clusters together. Scientists estimate that dark matter makes up around 27% of the universe, yet its exact nature remains a mystery. Researchers around the world are using instruments aboard spacecraft and the International Space Station to search for evidence of dark matter through phenomena like high-energy cosmic rays that may result from dark matter interactions. Unraveling the mystery of dark matter could fundamentally change our understanding of the universe.

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What is dark matter?

We can't see it; we do not know what it's made of; and we 're not indeed entirely sure it exists, but
what we do know is that there's a great deal more to the macrocosm than meets the eye. Globes,
stars, asteroids, worlds the effects that we can actually see constitute lower than 5 of the total
macrocosms. So, what makes up the rest? Therein lies the riddle.

Exploration suggests that a large proportion of the macrocosm is composed of a strange substance
known as dark matter. Dark matter is a mystification that has agonized scientists for nearly a
century, but as technology advances, we 're edging closer towards the verity. Scientists each over
the world are hunting for dark matter, and the indeed more mysterious' dark energy-and what they
find could ultimately transfigure our veritably notion of the macrocosm.

Dark matter is real or just some theory?


Dark matter is simply the name we give for all the mass in the macrocosm that we can't descry. So
how do we know dark matter exists if we can't descry it? Well, the short answer is that whilst we
can't see dark matter, we can see its good.

Scientists have worked out that the macrocosm behaves as though it contains a great deal more
stuff than it appears to. For case, worlds rotate within space at vast pets - so presto that they really
ought to be thrown piecemeal. And yet, they remain complete.

For fast-moving worlds to stay together, they need a lot of gravitational force. Each matter exerts
this force - it's what pulls objects towards one another. But as far as we can see, there simply is not
enough in the way of globes, stars and other matter to produce the gravitational force necessary to
snare worlds together. And so, scientists suppose there may be vast amounts of dark matter -
unnoticeable to the mortal eye- that exerts enough gravitational force to hold everything in its place.

And so, scientists suppose there may be vast amounts of dark matter - unnoticeable to the mortal
eye- that exerts enough gravitational force to hold everything in its place.

Unravelling the mystery


Scientists have been hunting dark matter for a long time. Swiss-American astronomer, Fritz Zwicky,
first theorised its actuality back in 1933. Latterly, in the 1970's, the American astronomer Vera Rubin
discovered firm substantiation to support the actuality of dark matter. Rubin prognosticated we'd
find dark matter itself within 10 times; but nearly half a century latterly, we 're still looking. Still,
that's not to say we have not made progress.

Exploration is taking place out in space


Since the turn of the 21st century, scientists have been using advanced sensors fitted to spacecraft
that are drifting. through the macrocosm. These sensors are searching for substantiation of high-
energy cosmic shafts', a form of energy that we'd anticipate to be produced if two dark matter
patches collided - if indeed dark matter is a flyspeck.

In recent times, sensors fitted to the outside of the International Space Station have plant
substantiation of unusual cosmic shaft events. These events could be linked to dark matter patches,
but there are numerous further prosaic explanations out there, and so their significance remains to
be seen.

Science is grim, and so the quest for dark matter will continue. And it's vital that we do keep up the
hunt. Dark matter holds the key to all feathers of secrets about the macrocosm. Eventually,
everything we see around us, everything we 've ever known could have been shaped in some way by
this riddle. Amidst all the unknowns, one thing is for certain dark matter may be good at caching, but
hopefully it's no match for the curiosity of the mortal spirit. Thanks to our implacable drive to
explore, to discover and to understand, we 'll no way stops hunting for answers.

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