And dark matter: that mysterious stuff we can't see but that clearly affects ordinary matter.
而暗物质是一种我们看不到的神秘物质，却明显能对普通物质构成影响。
The larger the distortion, the stronger the gravitational tug of the intervening galaxy's ordinary and dark matter.
光的扭曲越大，星系的本身及其暗物质的引力作用则越大。
Chandra's improved sensitivity is making possible more detailed studies of black holes, supernovas, and dark matter.
钱德拉高敏度性能，使得我们想了解黑洞、超新星、暗物质更多细节成为可能。
Their colleagues might be happy probing to the edge of the cosmos looking for exotic things like black holes and quasars and dark matter.
他们的天文学同僚们或许很乐意探索宇宙的边缘以寻找奇特的物质，比如黑洞、类星体和暗物质。
That may be because dark energy and dark matter, which together seem to make up 96 per cent of the universe's contents, might be a cosmic mirage.
可能的理由是：这种看起来似乎是共同构成了宇宙全部内容的百分之九十六的暗能量和暗物质，也许是一种宇宙间的海市蜃楼。
In MACSJ0717, a 13-million-light-year-long stream of galaxies, gas and dark matter -- known as a filament -- is pouring into a region already full of galaxies.
在130万光年长的MACSJ0717，气体和暗物质（就像灯丝一样）正在进入一个已经充满了星云的地带。
And dark matter doesn't often interact with most other matter, scientists theorize. One idea is that it flies right through the Earth, your house, and your body without bouncing off atoms.
科学家们推理说，暗物质一般不与大多数其他物质作用，他们认为暗物质会直接穿过地球、房屋甚至是人的身体，并不会被原子所弹开。
Researchers created a new supercomputer model, based on observational data and the "Lambda Cold Dark Matter" theory of the universe.
研究人员在观测数据和兰姆达冷暗物质模型的基础上构建了一个新的计算模型。
Even the normal matter that makes up our bodies is only a minority constituent of the Universe - most matter is exotic and dark.
甚至组成我们星球的普通的物质都只是宇宙成分中的少数——多数的物质是异域粒子和暗能量。
Some researchers have started using it to explain away the twin cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.
一些研究者已经开始利用它来解释暗物质和暗能量这两个伴生的宇宙学之谜。
Without this data from the cosmic microwave background, we can still learn a whole lot about the Universe, including its age, the presence of dark matter and dark energy.
如果没有这个来自宇宙微波背景的数据，我们仍可以去了解整个宇宙，包括其年龄，暗物质和暗能量的存在等等。
Another idea is that a connection between dark matter and dark energy would alter the growth of cosmic structures, which depends delicately on the composition of the universe, including its dark side.
另一种设想是暗物质和暗能量之间的联系会改变宇宙的结构，因为宇宙结构严重依赖于它的各种构成成分，包括黑暗部分。
However the researchers can? T be absolutely sure that the two signals they measured were dark matter and not some other particle, which they call background.
但研究者们还是不能绝对确信他们所测到的两个信号跟暗物质有关，因为有可能是背景的其他粒子干扰所致。
Thus, dark matter must exist, and it was wrenched apart from normal matter by the force of the collision of the clusters.
因此，暗物质一定存在，而且星云团的碰撞产生的作用力将暗物质同普通物质相分离。
That makes it hard to argue that dark matter and dark energy are not real and to explain them away by, for example, modifying Einstein's theory of gravity.
这让那种认为暗物质和暗能量不存在的辩驳变得非常困难，更不可能抛开它们去解释任何事情，比如修改爱因斯坦的引力理论。
Ultimately, the computer programs developed for the GREAT challenge will be used to help unmask dark matter and dark energy, the mysterious stuff that makes up 95 percent of the universe.
最终，为GREAT奖所开发的电脑程序将被用于揭开暗物质和黑暗能量的面纱，帮助科学家明白构成宇宙95%以上物质的真实面目。
If true this could mean that the ripples are significantly smaller, which could imply that dark matter and dark energy are not present after all.
如果情况属实，这可能意味着波纹明显较小，这意味着，暗物质和暗能量可能并不存在。
In Panek's new book, "The 4 Percent Universe" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), Panek recounts the story of how dark matter and dark energy were discovered.
在潘尼克的新书《4％的宇宙》（哈考特出版社，2011）中，潘尼克详述了暗物质与暗能量怎样发现的经过。
Dark matter and dark energy, the sources of many current open questions in astrophysics, will figure in many space-based stories and some planet-based ones.
暗物质和暗能量，当前天体物理学中许多未解之谜的源头，将出现在很多发生在太空和外星的故事中。
Perhaps it was a matter of personality, and of a dark vision that turned to cynicism.
也许，这是个性的问题和转变成犬儒主义的黑色影像问题。
With these results, scientists concluded that the cosmos is made up of 4% normal matter, 22% dark or invisible matter and 74% dark energy .
因此，天文学家们认为，宇宙的4%由普通物质组成，22%由暗物质组成，剩下的74%是暗能量。
The standard cosmological model which predicts that the Universe is dominated by 74% dark energy and 22% dark matter. The remaining 4% are the atoms of ordinary matter that we see around us.
标准宇宙模型预言宇宙22%由暗物质组成，74%是暗能量，剩下的4%是在我们身边可以看到的普通物质。
According to the big bang model, our universe is made up of around 4% of normal (atomic) matter; 22% dark matter and 74% dark energy.
根据大爆炸模型，宇宙构成中，常规物质(原子)只占4%，暗物质占22%，暗能量占74%。
Debate about the exact nature of the dark side of the Universe - the dark matter and dark energy - continues to this day.
但宇宙的阴暗面(暗物质、暗能量)的本质究竟是什么，各方争论至今。
The precise nature of dark matter is unknown and over the years many contenders have been put forward to account for it.
暗物质的本质一直不为人知，许多年来也有很多粒子理论被提出，以视图对其进行解释。
However the researchers can't be absolutely sure that the two signals they measured were dark matter and not some other particle, which they call background.
但研究者们还是不能绝对确信他们所测到的两个信号跟暗物质有关，因为有可能是背景的其他粒子干扰所致。
However the researchers can't be absolutely sure that the two signals they measured were dark matter and not some other particle, which they call background.
但研究者们还是不能绝对确信他们所测到的两个信号跟暗物质有关，因为有可能是背景的其他粒子干扰所致。
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