7 Independent Pieces Of Evidence For Dark Matter

With the full suite of evidence, there’s no escaping dark matter.

“A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled than ever. The crux… is that the vast majority of mass of the universe seems to be missing.” -William J. Broad

When we look out at the Universe, it’s only natural to imagine that the same stuff we see wait out there — among the stars, galaxies, and in the great, dark void of intergalactic space — would be made out of the same stuff that’s close to home: protons, neutrons and electrons. After all, our world and everything on it, our Solar System and everything in it, and our Milky Way (to the best of our knowledge) and all it consists of is made out of exactly that.

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Image credit: ESO / VLT.

Even if that somehow weren’t the case, we’d still expect they’d be made up of some combination of the known, discovered fundamental particles. When it comes to every form of matter that’s known to exist, the Standard Model of elementary particles covers it all. If it’s been created, measured or observed in a laboratory setting, it’s contained in this chart, below.

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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~