New Study Suggests Dark matter predates the ‘Big Bang’ — but what does that actually mean?

New research suggests that dark matter predates the Big Bang, but that finding has been somewhat misrepresented in the mainstream media. I spoke to researcher Tommi Tenkanen to clear up the misapprehensions.

Current estimates suggest that dark matter currently comprises 80% of the matter in the known universe, but despite that, scientists don’t actually know what it is. Thus, this leaves a huge gap in our knowledge of the universe and makes dark matter one of the biggest mysteries in science.

As such it’s little surprise that new research into the subject is a hot topic both in the scientific community and for casual readers.

Likewise, the origins of the universe and the so-called ‘big bang’ go to the fundamental question all of us have asked at some point: “Why is there something rather than nothing?”

As you can imagine, that means that a study which unities both the ‘Big Bang’ and the nature of dark matter is guaranteed to cause a stir — especially if it seems that research flies in the face of our current understanding of both.