CERN:
Unlike normal matter, dark matter does not interact with the electromagnetic force. This means it does not absorb, reflect or emit light. Researchers have been able to infer the existence of dark matter only from the gravitational effect it seems to have on visible matter.
While dark matter explains the hidden gravitational force that pulls a galaxy in place, a seemingly opposite anti-gravitational force pushes galaxies away from one another: dark energy.
NASA:
One explanation for dark energy is that it is a property of space. ... As more space comes into existence, more of this energy-of-space would appear. As a result, this form of energy would cause the universe to expand faster and faster.
NASA:
It turns out that roughly 68% of the universe is dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 27%. The rest - everything on Earth, everything ever observed with all of our instruments, all normal matter - adds up to less than 5% of the universe.
Over the course of a human lifetime, the total amount of dark matter to
pass through your body doesn't even add up to one gram.
Does the Bible talk about dark matter?
I think so. Genesis 1:
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and void,
Was this the invisible dark earth existing in the spiritual realm?
and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Was the spiritual realm composed of dark matter and energy?
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Now came the ordinary matter and energy. The physical, visible universe began.
4 God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness
as if darkness was physical like light.
Isaiah 45:
7a I form light and create darkness.
The invisible became visible, Hebrews 11:
3 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.
From the invisible matter came the visible matter.
Colossians 1:
15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
All things visible and invisible hold together.
Berean Study Bible Job 10:
22 to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
See also
Dark earth?.
