Take dark matter, the mysterious, invisible stuff that outweighs the visible stars and galaxies by a factor of 10 to 1. When it was first proposed in the 1930s, nobody believed it.

想象一下暗物质，那些神秘不可见的东东，在银河系里相对可见星的比重的为10：1，这种观点1930年被首次提出时，没有一个人相信。

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Much indirect evidence for dark matter — supposedly 25 percent of the mass in the universe — comes from observing its invisible gravitational effect on visible galaxies and their stars.

据推测不可见的暗物质占到宇宙总质量的25%，其存在的间接证据主要是由于观察到其施加在星系和恒星上的引力作用。

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The universe is populated with visible stars, gas and dust, but most of the matter in the universe is invisible.

宇宙中分布着可见的恒星、气体和尘埃，但宇宙间绝大多数物质是不可见的。

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Thus, the Bolshoi simulation models not just how the minority of the visible universe of stars, gas, and dust evolved but also how the vast majority of the invisible universe evolved.

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