Massive objects like the sun can bend light, but colossal clouds of dark matter create "bubbles" in the cosmos.
巨大的星体，例如太阳能够使光弯曲，但是庞大的暗物质云会在宇宙中产生“气泡”。
And engulfing all that our telescopes can see is an enormous halo of dark matter that they can't.
从望远镜中看不到的巨大黑物质光晕吞没了望远镜中看得见的一切。
Dark matter is an invisible form of matter that accounts for most of the Universe's mass.
“暗物质”是一种以不可见的形态存在的物质，它构成了宇宙的大部分质量。
Dark matter. Nobody knows what it is, but it's thought to make up a quarter of the universe.
暗物质，没有人确切知道它到底是什么，但它被认为占了这个宇宙物质的四分之一。
Dark matter requires the existence of particles with properties unlike anything else we have discovered.
暗物质需要某些粒子的存在，这些粒子的属性不同于我们已发现的任何粒子。
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。
Dark matter might not really be "stuff" - it could just be a misleading name for the odd behaviour of gravity.
暗物质可能并不是真的“实体”——它可能只是对万有引力古怪行为的误导性名称。
Dark matter is taken into account in the leading co-evolution models, but only in a general, overall sense.
暗物质被认为是联合进化模式中的主导因素，但仅仅是在一般的，笼统的意义上。
We've had all kinds of surprises: dark matter, dark energy, inflation, things like that.
我们有过各种各样的惊喜：暗物质，暗能量，宇宙膨胀，诸如此类的事情。
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。
We've been searching for dark matter for decades now, but we still have no idea what it might be.
几十年来至今，我们一直在搜寻暗物质，但是，还是不知道它有可能是什么。
The findings could help astronomers understand more about dark matter, as well as its even stranger sibling? Dark energy.
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。
Dark matter: this generally refers to "exotic" non-baryonic matter that interacts only weakly with ordinary matter.
暗物质：这一般是指“外来的”非重子物质，与普通物质只有较弱的的相互作用。
To see dark matter, said Dr. Barish, scientists will have to build the world's biggest particle accelerator.
巴里什博士说，要想看到暗物质，科学家们必须要建造世界上最大的粒子加速器。
Hot intracluster gas is shown in pink, and the blue overlay maps the location of dark matter.
炽热的星团内气体是粉红色，蓝色覆盖层绘制了暗物质的位置。
But scientists say most of the universe is composed not of stars but of dark matter.
但是科学家说，我们的宇宙并不是由星星组成的，而是暗物质构成的。
Just last week, the first possible direct evidence was announced for dark matter halos around early quasars.
在上周，第一份可能是早期类星体周围的暗物质环的直接证据刚刚公布。
Some cosmologists theorize that this means there is a kind of matter we can't see at all, called dark matter.
部分宇宙学家将这一发现理论化，认为宇宙中有一种物质我们无法观测到，这就是暗物质。
Meanwhile, Nasa's Fermi space Telescope is taking a different approach to try to pin down dark matter. It will look for evidence of dark matter "annihilations" in space.
同时，美国太空署的费尔米太空望远镜也在使用不同的方法试图确认暗物质(的存在)。它将寻找暗物质在太空“湮灭”的证据。
Slowly, a vast "cosmic web" of filaments and clumps of dark matter formed, and within them, the galaxies.
慢慢的，一张巨大的丝状和块状交结的暗物质“宇宙网”形成了，星系便在其中。
Slowly, a vast “cosmic web” of filaments and clumps of dark matter formed, and within them, the galaxies.
慢慢的，一张巨大的丝状和块状交结的暗物质“宇宙网”形成了，星系便在其中。
Hubble's cluster Lensing and Supernova Survey - CLASH - is charting the distribution of dark matter in 25 clusters.
哈勃的集群透镜和超新星调查显示将暗物质的分布分成了25个部分。
Many scientists think dark matter might even be hiding right under our noses here on Earth.
许多科学家甚至认为暗物质就藏在我们的鼻子底下，地球上就有暗物质存在。
Could this explain the observed speeds of the stars and galaxies without dark matter playing a role?
这可以不需要借助于暗物质的作用来解释观测到的恒星和星系的速度吗？
Astronomers measure how much dark matter lies in galaxies by a fluke of physics called gravitational lensing.
天文学家通过一种叫做引力透镜效应的物理现象来测算星系中暗物质的质量。
Now scientists have used dark matter theory to predict the menagerie of galaxies found in the universe.
目前科学家们利用暗物质理论来预言宇宙中已知的星系的形成。
Various underground experiments back on Earth have been trying to detect dark matter, using different techniques.
各种返回地球的地下实验一直使用各式各样的技术，努力地检测暗物质。
Indeed, many physicists now suspect that dark matter may provide the scaffold on which visible matter is arranged.
但现在很多物理学家都怀疑暗物质其实为聚集在一起的物质提供了骨架。
Indeed, many physicists now suspect that dark matter may provide the scaffold on which visible matter is arranged.
但现在很多物理学家都怀疑暗物质其实为聚集在一起的物质提供了骨架。
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