The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has provided groundbreaking insights into the Bullet Cluster, a cosmic collision zone ...

Webb’s new images of the Bullet Cluster reveal the most detailed dark matter map yet, shedding light on cosmic collisions and ...

The telescope’s map builds on a map of the universe’s matter released earlier this year, which was produced using data from the Dark Energy Survey and the South Pole Telescope.

What was left was basically a map of all the dark matter in a straight line between Earth and the distant quasar, at a resolution of about 30,000 light years. A conceptual diagram of the ...

In a chilled lab where temperatures drop close to absolute zero, a speck of magnet hovers in place. This tiny magnet, ...

However, a newly created dark matter map finally gives undeniable proof. We must first look at Einstein’s original theory to fully understand this new development.

Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ...

Dark matter isn’t visible to the human eye, or even telescopes, but there is an ingenious way to map its presence across the universe.

This dark matter map is some of the last observations to come from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, which was decommissioned in September 2022. Located in mountains of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the ...

Our map includes all of the dark matter, going back to the Big Bang, and the other maps are looking back about 9 billion years, giving us a layer that is much closer to us.

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

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