Patricia Burchat: Shedding light on dark matter

The video explores the universe's fundamental interactions, focusing on dark matter and dark energy. It explains how dark matter, which doesn't interact with electromagnetic forces, is detected through gravitational effects. Gravitational lensing, predicted by Einstein, helps visualize dark matter's presence. The video also discusses the surprising discovery of the universe's accelerating expansion, attributed to dark energy, a mysterious force with no theoretical explanation. Current research efforts aim to detect dark matter particles and understand dark energy's role in the universe's structure.

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