Global Research in Environment and Sustainability – ISSN 3033-3644 August 2024, Vol. 2, No. 7, pp. 14-25. Melanin: The Perfect Candidate to be the Dark Matter Arturo Solis Herrera & María del Carmen Arias Esparza 1. Human Photosynthesis ® Research Center Abstract: Everything scientists can observe in the universe, from people to planets, is made of matter. Matter is defined as any substance that has mass and occupies space. But there’s more to the universe than the matter we can see. Dark matter and dark energy are mysterious substances that affect and shape the cosmos, and scientists are still trying to figure them out. Invisible dark matter makes up most of the universe (96 %) – but we can only detect it from its gravitational effects. Galaxies in our universe seem to be achieving an impossible feat. They are rotating with such speed that the gravity generated by their observable matter could not possibly hold them together; they should have torn themselves apart long ago. The same is true of galaxies in clusters, which leads scientists to believe that something we cannot see is at work. They think something we have yet to detect directly is giving these galaxies extra mass, generating the extra gravity they need to stay intact. This strange and unknown matter was called “dark matter” since it is not visible. The melanin of living beings and the dark matter of the universe share the same physical/chemical characteristics, including the unsuspected ability to transform the power of light into chemical energy, by dissociating water molecules, as in plants. Keywords: Dark matter, Hydrogen, Melanin, Oxygen, Plants, Water dissociation. INTRODUCTION Dark matter is the mysterious stuff that fills the universe, but no one has ever seen. Dark matter is entirely invisible, emitting no light or energy, making it undetectable by conventional sensors and detectors. Researchers believe that the key to its elusive nature lies in its composition. Unlike normal matter, dark matter seems does not interact with the electromagnetic force, or at least in some already known form. This means it seems does not absorb, reflect or emit light, making it extremely hard to spot. In fact, researchers have been able to infer the existence of dark matter only from the gravitational effect it seems to have on visible matter. The matter we know and that makes up all stars and galaxies only accounts for 5% of the content of the universe! But what is dark matter? One idea is that it could contain "supersymmetric particles" – hypothesized particles that are partners to those already known in the Standard Model, a remarkable insight into the fundamental structure of matter: everything in the universe is found to be made from a few basic building blocks called fundamental particles, governed by four fundamental forces. MATTER PARTICLES All matter around us is made of elementary particles, the building blocks of matter. These particles occur in two basic types called quarks and leptons.