Sentences with phrase «most mysterious substance»

It's a challenging task, but astronomers have made progress on one front: the study of dark matter and dark energy, two of the most mysterious substances in our cosmos.

Not exact matches

In Maxwell's time, most physicists thought that light, like sound, needed some kind of medium for transmission; the mysterious, invisible substance they hypothesized, called the luminiferous ether, would presumably be influenced by the motion of Earth around the sun and the movement of the solar system through the galaxy, a dynamic that stood to alter the speed of light depending on the relative direction from which that light came.

They interpreted it as the debris left behind when particles of dark matter — the mysterious substance that makes up most of the matter in the universe yet refuses to interact with ordinary matter except through gravity — crashed together and annihilated each other in the centre of the Milky Way.

Dark matter is a mysterious substance composing most of the material universe, now widely thought to be some form of massive exotic particle.

Dark matter, the mysterious substance that constitutes most of the material universe, remains as elusive as ever.

Dark matter is a mysterious, invisible substance, which makes up most of the known universe.

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).

Dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up roughly a quarter of the universe, is invisible to even the most sensitive astronomical instruments because it does not emit or block light.

One of the most common questions we get in our GreenLite front office is about the mysterious jar of powdery substance on the top shelf of our product case.