Astronomers theorize that the faster expansion rate is due to a mysterious, dark force that is pulling galaxies apart. One explanation for dark energy is that it is a property of space. As a result, this form of energy would cause the universe to expand faster and faster.

When scientists talk about the expanding universe, they mean that it has been growing ever since its beginning with the Big Bang. In other words, the universe has no center; everything is moving away from everything else.

What evidence do we have that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating? Galaxies at great distances from us are traveling at velocities slower than the Hubble law predicts.

Dark energy is the name given to whatever might be causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate.

The radiation-filled Universe dilutes faster; it’s density drops as the volume expands, while each individual photon also loses energy due to its cosmological redshift. The energy density drops faster for a radiation-filled Universe than a matter-filled one, and therefore so does the expansion rate.

The continued existence of dark energy would most likely cause the future acceleration of the expansion of the universe. As what the United States, Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess and Australia’s Brian Schmidt had said, the universe is also speeding up in addition to its expansion that’s caused by the dark energy.

Unlike normal matter, dark matter does not interact with the electromagnetic force. This means it does not absorb, reflect or emit light, making it extremely hard to spot.

Understanding dark matter is important to understanding the size, shape and future of the universe. The amount of dark matter in the universe will determine if the universe is open (continues to expand), closed (expands to a point and then collapses) or flat (expands and then stops when it reaches equilibrium).

But more-massive pieces of dark matter known as macroscopic dark matter, or macros, could lurk in the cosmos. In theory, macros could directly interact with physical objects such as human bodies, causing “significant damage,” according to the new study titled “Death by Dark Matter.”

Dark matter can refer to any substance which interacts predominantly via gravity with visible matter (e.g., stars and planets). Hence in principle it need not be composed of a new type of fundamental particle but could, at least in part, be made up of standard baryonic matter, such as protons or neutrons.

If you observed a supernova from 1 AU away—and you somehow avoided being being incinerated, vaporized, and converted to some type of exotic plasma—even the flood of ghostly neutrinos would be dense enough to kill you. If it’s going fast enough, a feather can absolutely knock you over.

Physicists previously estimated that dark matter particles had to be lighter than the “Planck mass” – about 1.2 x 10^19 GeV, at least a 1,000 times heavier than the largest-known particles — yet heavier than 10^minus 24 eV to fit with observations of the smallest galaxies known to contain dark matter, he said.

Scientists study dark matter by looking at the effects it has on visible objects. Scientists believe that dark matter may account for the unexplained motions of stars within galaxies. Scientists believe that dark matter in the cluster accounts for the unexplained mass.

In anime/manga Dark Matter has broad range of powers, including Form Manipulation/Elemental Manipulation. It isn’t associated with space, but more with “Supernatural” form of matter normally associated with Dark Energy Manipulation, various forms of Magic and Destructive Energy Manipulation.

It won’t bind with anything you eat. If you eat it, it won’t stay inside you; it’ll drift away as though you weren’t there. Dark matter interacts barely, if at all, with ordinary matter except through gravity. You won’t find dark matter supplements in the store.

The law of conservation of energy, also known as the first law of thermodynamics, states that the energy of a closed system must remain constant—it can neither increase nor decrease without interference from outside.