Dark Energy and Dark Matter

     (A super computers rendering of the Universe, dark spots are dark matter and dark energy energy)

Did you know that everything you have ever seen or heard or touched accounts for only a fraction of the known Universe. The physical matter that light interacts with only accounts for four percent of the Universe. All the planets, in our solar system. All the stars in our galaxy. All the galaxies in our Universe only make up four percent of the known universe. There are hundreds of millions of stars in our galaxy. There are over a hundred billion galaxies! All of that still makes up for only four percent. So what is the rest of the universe made up off? Dark matter and Dark energy. Dark Matter is an unknown gravitational force that has no known matter attached to it. Essentially There are forces of gravity out in the Universe that can not be explained by the stars, galaxies, and black holes generating that gravity. There has to be something extra causing the excess gravity. That unknown "something" is dark matter! It's only called dark because we don't know what it is! Dark matter makes up for about 27% of what the Universe is made out of. What's the rest? The remaining 68%? It's Dark Energy! Dark energy is an unknown force that is found in the universe that is causing all known matter to rapidly accelerate away from other matter. When astrophysics first started they expected the expansion of the Universe to slow down after the big bang. However after numerous cosmological observations that utilize the power of supernovae explosions, scientist discovered the Universe is actually speeding up in it's expansion. Everything is flying away from each other faster and faster each day. What is causing this? Dark Energy! Just like dark matter, the only reason it's called dark is because we don't understand it! There are many physicist across the globe scrambling to find an answers to these great cosmic questions. If they find out the science behind Dark Energy and Dark Matter, it would surely contain world shattering information to further our technologies and allow us to explore the deepest reaches of space!