The dark matter and dark energy

Abstract

The dark matter and dark energy are one of the biggest challenges facing contemporary physics and astronomy. Dark energy and dark matter play an important role the universe. The amount of dark energy and dark matter determines how the universe changes. When there’s more dark energy, the universe is accelerating. If there were more dark matter, the universe might slow down, or even stop expanding and start contracting. So in this paper, the basic definition of dark matter and dark energy are introduced. And how were dark matter and dark energy discovered and their respective detection methods and the current progress of experiments to detect dark matter and dark energy respectively.