Unsolved Mysterious of the Universe

21st February

By: Haris Ahmad

Our Universe is a boundless vacuum that stretches over a distance of billions of light-years and it consists of countless types of celestial bodies. Modern technology and complex mathematical equations have helped humans to understand the Universe to a great extent, however, there are still many mysteries that are unsolved. In this blog series, I'll highlight some of the mysterious phenomena in the Universe. I will start with Dark Matter. 

The known universe is composed of 5% normal matter, in the form of stars, planets, asteroids, galaxies, and Nebulae, etc. However, 25% percent of the universe is made up of Dark Matter. This type of matter is invisible to our eyes and is basically, a postulated form of matter that interacts with its surrounding space through gravitation. The existence of this type of matter was predicted through its effect on normal matter. Scientists calculated and derived the fact that galaxies just weren't having enough gravitational force to maintain their spiral and elliptical shapes and therefore, it suggested the fact that something mysteriously hidden was the culprit behind this mystery. Hence, due to the fact that there is not much knowledge about this type of matter, scientists on Earth named it Dark Matter. 

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This Dark Matter acts as a spider web that holds entire galaxies together. Furthermore, the distorted view of distant galaxies suggested that it was Dark Matter, which was bending the space between us and the galaxies, and this nevertheless, contributed to the idea of the existence of such matter. The composition of this mysterious matter still remains a mystery as the scientists are totally baffled by it. Some theories suggest that Dark Matter is made up of undiscovered particles that are unknown to man whereas other theories suggest that the culprits behind this type of matter are some unknown gravitational properties.