Dark matter is a substance that is necessary for the structure of the universe. It is pretty much a glue that fills up empty space. While we cannot see it, we know it is there because we can see very small light bends from the extremely small amount of gravity the dark matter gives out. Scientists estimate that dark matter makes up 27% of the universe. We finally found a "picture" of it when researchers took pictures of hundreds of massive galaxies and analyzed how the light bends between them. Even though the dark matter doesn't actually reflect of give off light, we can find it because of how light acts in the presence of it.
In the picture above, the white region is the galaxy and the red region is dark matter.
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1. How do you think this will affect science in space?
2. What do you think we could do with dark matter?
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I think this will really help advance our research on dark matter and space in general. Since we are able to take these pictures of dark matter, we can learn a lot by analyzing and studying them. I'm not sure what we could do with dark matter, because we don't know all that much about it, but I believe that through research and finding out more about what it does, we can begin to find ways to use it for ourselves.
I don't really know how this will affect science in space or how it will help us, but I hope that this discovery somehow helps us to develop our knowledge about space. It might be helpful when it comes to travelling in space. I am not quite sure what you could need dark matter for, I am not a scientist. I just hope the human race will use something like that to invent and create good things. I hope we won't end up using it in a wrong way.
I would hope this helps advance our civilization closer to space exploration. Well we don't really know much about dark matter and don't know what it can do, but I would hope that it would be able to do good things for us.