Dark Matter and Dark Energy Quiz

Who discovered that galaxies exist and are very far away from us, and that those galaxies are receding away from us?

• Albert Einstein

• Isaac Newton

• Edwin Hubble

• Stephen Hawking

What is the mysterious substance that does not interact with light or with normal matter, but takes up the vast majority of all the mass in the universe?

• Dark Matter

• Dark Knight

• Dark Energy

• Dark Chocolate

What did two teams of astronomers discover in the late 1990s about the expansion of the universe?

• The expansion is constant

• The expansion is reversing

• The expansion is decelerating

• The expansion is accelerating

What percentage of all the mass energy in the entire cosmos is taken up by dark energy?

• 33.8%

• 50%

• 80%

• 66.2%

What is the name of the latest survey that measured the precise positions of about 1,500 supernovae to study dark matter and dark energy?

• Cosmic Chronicles

• PANTHEON+

• Supernova Spectra

• Galaxy Quest