这些结果可以帮助天文学家更好地理解暗物质，以及更加扑朔迷离的暗能量。
The findings could help astronomers understand more about dark matter, as well as its even stranger sibling? Dark energy.
低温暗物质研究II号在极度低温中进行，并侦测（暗物质）粒子在探测器重撞击锗元素以及硅晶体时释放的能量。
CDMSII operates at extremely low temperatures and detects the energy released when particles hit atoms in germanium and silicon crystals within the detectors.
剩下的主要由暗物质，以及原子分子等仅占宇宙物质总量的4%左右的普通物质组成。
The rest comes primarily from dark matter, with ordinary matter—atoms and molecules—contributing just 4 percent or so to the total makeup of the universe.
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