What is Dark Matter?

[WinchesterPremium]

You guys are expert on things that are dark tell me what dark matter is.

 

[Retink]

Think of matter, you know all that stuff that matters or is matter, and now imagine it with the lights off. Dark, ain't it?

 

[Wine em Dine em 69 em]

Is it the 96% of the universe we know nothing about or something?

 

[kūhaku]

A made up substance physicists use as an excuse to explain unknown behavior

 

[WinchesterPremium]

Is it the 96% of the universe we know nothing about or something?

DESPITE making up 96% of the universe...

 

[ToroidalBoat]

It's some odd thing that is invisible to everything except gravity.

(there's the possibility it doesn't even exist after all)

 

[Testacles Maximus]

It’s poop.

 

[Haunted Gambler]

Villain from Kirby games

 

[Shig O'nella]

About tree-fiddy a pound.

 

[Shidoen]

It’s that moldy stuff you can find in you me walls.

 

[Jaded Optimist]

A delicious beer

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

Best Magus ability from Chrono Trigger.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

It’s poop.

Each pound of which weighs over ten thousand pounds.

(it can also be used as fuel in an intergalactic delivery ship)

 

[Ishtar]

Serious answer, it’s the go to explanation to explain why the universe acts the way it does with regular matter making up such a small part of it.

Physicists ultimately have no idea what it is, or if it even exists as postulated.

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

Serious answer, it’s the go to explanation to explain why the universe acts the way it does with regular matter making up such a small part of it.

Physicists ultimately have no idea what it is, or if it even exists as postulated.

Yeah, the “dark” in dark matter (and dark energy as well, since we’re kind of lumping both together here) means “unknown”. So it’s really a placeholder for this “unknown matter/energy” that is making the universe expand/stay together in the way we observe it through our telescopes/astronomical measurements.