Sentences with phrase «mysterious stuff which»

This could reveal smoking - gun signals of dark matter, the mysterious stuff which makes up 80 per cent of the mass in the universe but can't be seen directly.

We follow the search for dark matter — that mysterious stuff which outweighs the visible stars and galaxies by a factor of about six.

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Lawrence expects that the spacecraft will significantly shrink levels of uncertainty for such cosmological parameters as the age of the universe and the relative proportions of ordinary matter (all that we can see and touch) and that mysterious stuff known as dark matter, which is believed to make up far more of the universe than its ordinary counterpart.

Since this discovery 40 years ago, we have learned that this mysterious substance, which is probably an exotic elementary particle, makes up about 85 percent of the mass in the Universe, leaving only 15 percent to be the ordinary stuff encountered in our everyday lives.