Then nothing exploded.
And here we are.
The Universe is still expanding as those two mysterious forces (Dark Energy and Dark Matter) apply in opposition to each other, one holding galaxies together while the other accelerates and pushes everything away from everything else. Neither one is visible, but that could soon change thank you to...
The Highest Resolution Camera Ever Built
The highest-resolution camera ever built has begun its quest to pin down the mysterious stuff that makes up nearly three-quarters of our Universe."The Dark Energy Survey's 570-million-pixel camera will scan some 300 million galaxies in the coming five years.The goal is to discover the nature of dark energy, which is theorised to be responsible for the ever-faster expansion of the Universe.Its first image, taken 12 September, focussed on the Fornax galaxy cluster.In time, along with its massive haul of individual galaxies, it will study 100,000 galaxy clusters - the largest stable structures we know of - and 4,000 supernovae, the bright dying throes of stars.This enormous survey is a collaboration between US, UK, Brazilian, Spanish and German astronomers.The phone box-sized Dark Energy Camera or DECam is mounted on the 4m Victor M Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile's Atacama desert.DECam is particularly sensitive to red and infrared light, to better study cosmic objects as distant as eight billion light-years away".
