And if that's not enough, they may have
detected mysterious dark matter at work,...
Not exact matches
We have no idea what's causing this gravity, though — we haven't directly
detected the theorized particles that make up this
mysterious material that doesn't seem to interact (other than gravitationally) with normal
matter like light and the particles that we know and love, which is what makes it invisible, and therefore «
dark» to most instruments normally used to understand our universe.
Astronomers believe that about 80 % of the
matter in the universe is the
mysterious «
dark matter» that, so far, can only be
detected by its gravitational pull.
Dark matter hitting black holes could be the source of some fast radio bursts —
mysterious blasts of radio waves that come from billions of light years away, first
detected 10 years ago.
Most astronomers think the universe started forming its recognizable structure around clumps of
dark matter, the
mysterious substance that collectively weighs six times more than all the visible
matter and so far has eluded all attempts to
detect it directly (ScienceNOW, 13 September).