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Asked by fund520tosh to Kirsty L, Lottie_ChemEng on 2 Oct 2024.
Question: What is dark matter
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Kirsty Lindsay answered on 2 Oct 2024:
It is stuff that has mass, but we can’t see. It hangs out in space changing the paths of matter we can see. NASA kids has an interesting page about it here: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/dark-matter/en/
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ifanthomas commented on :
Dark matter is like a mysterious, invisible friend in the universe. We can’t see it because it doesn’t give off any light, but we know it’s there because it has gravity, which pulls on things like stars and galaxies. Imagine it like a hidden force that makes up about 27% of everything in the universe.
Now, dark energy is even more interesting. It’s like a magical energy that fills up space and makes the universe expand faster and faster. Dark energy makes up a whopping 68% of the universe. So, together, dark matter and dark energy make up most of the universe, while the stuff we can see, like planets and stars, is just a small part of it.
Sheridan commented on :
Dark Matter, like Dark Energy has been invented to answer some very puzzling questions about the universe, for example why galaxies rotate the way they appear to do.
base520eggy commented on :
thank you