The cosmos is filled with invisible dark matter, which betrays itself only through gravity. Its existence was suspected by Fritz Zwicky and confirmed by Vera Rubin.
In the very beginning, moments after the Big Bang, the universe was ridiculously symmetric: particles and antiparticles in equal measure. But a tiny imbalance occurred, like one extra grain of sugar in a kilogram, and the entire familiar world, stars, planets, people, arose from that surplus. How nature created this imbalance remains a mystery.