⬛ DARK MATTER: THE INVISIBLE UNIVERSE
PAGE 1 OF 5 — THE INVISIBLE GLUE
27% OF THE UNIVERSE
IT IS THERE. BUT YOU CANNOT SEE IT.
About 27 percent of the entire universe is made of something that does not emit light, does not absorb light, and does not interact with ordinary matter at all. We cannot see it with any telescope. We cannot touch it. We cannot detect it with any instrument we currently possess. Yet we know with certainty it exists, because its gravity holds galaxies together and shapes the entire large-scale structure of the cosmos.
🤔 THE INVISIBLE MAJORITY
Everything you have ever seen, touched, or detected, every star, planet, gas cloud, and black hole, makes up only 5 percent of the universe. Dark matter is five times more abundant than ordinary matter, yet completely invisible to us.
INVISIBLE!
NO SIGNAL
🔮 Does not emit any form of electromagnetic radiation
⚡ Does not absorb or reflect light of any wavelength
⛔ Passes straight through ordinary matter with no interaction
⚡ Does not absorb or reflect light of any wavelength
⛔ Passes straight through ordinary matter with no interaction
ONLY GRAVITY
⚡ Gravity is the only way it interacts with anything
🌌 Forms an invisible scaffold around every galaxy
🔗 Without it, galaxies would fly apart at their rotation speeds
🌌 Forms an invisible scaffold around every galaxy
🔗 Without it, galaxies would fly apart at their rotation speeds