Astronomers Use Hubble To Map Dark Matter "Scaffolding"

Credit: NASA/ESA/R. MASSEY (CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)
Astronomers have more work to do, but a new map of "dark matter" dating halfway back to the Big Bang lends weight to the theory that the mysterious phenomenon holds the visible Universe like lights on a Christmas tree. The researchers have produced a three-dimensional map of a slice of the sky nine...

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