A new research, conducted by scientists of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, suggests that Earth is surrounded by long, 'hairy' filaments of dark matter. Theoretically, the hairy filaments, if detected could be used to map out the inner layers of any planet or space bodies, NASA announced on November 23, 2015.
Dark matter, is believed to be an invisible substance making up approximately 27% of all matter and energy of the universe. Regular matter, or 'visible' builds up only 5% of the universe. According to experts, the rest of the universe building blocks is made of dark energy which is associated with acceleration of our expanding universe.
So far, no experiments have been able to detect dark matter or dark energy, however scientist are confident in its existence, based on observations of its gravitational pull in action, and they have also been able to measure how much of it is our there to the accuracy of 1%.
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