Credit: NASA Somethings Are Left unseen
In 2011 Saul Perlmutter of Berkeley National Laboratory, Brian Schmidt of the Australian National University, and Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Institute were awarded the Nobel prize for running 3 independent teams; all studying the effects of our galaxy 's expansion and confirming that the expansion is speeding up.
It is suspected that a mysterious force called dark matter makes up a good percentage of the material value of our universe. Scientists are working hard to confirm this theory, which might not be possible unless there was a force working against the inward pull of gravity.
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