This jar is a visual representation of our universe, in jellybean form. If you don’t like licorice – sorry, you’re out of luck. That’s because the black jellybeans here represent the mysterious duo – dark matter and dark energy – that pervade our universe.
Less than 5% of the energy and matter that makes up the universe is the normal, everyday matter that scientists understand. The rest is dark matter (27%) and dark energy (68%).
Five percent is… not very much. Imagine trying to read a book where you could see only 1 out of every 20 words on the page; the rest are all written in invisible-ink. You might be able to glean some idea of what the book was about, but you’d be pretty confused. That’s how physicists feel about the universe, and that’s why they are working hard to understand more about the universe’s enigmatic dark side.
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