The largest-ever map of the universe’s dark matter has been released.
Dark matter, which is unobservable from the Earth, is thought to make up around 80% of matter in the universe.
A team of scientists from the international Dark Energy Survey (DES) created the new map – which covers a quarter of the southern hemisphere’s sky.
A deep field image of one of the regions of space analysed to plot the dark matter map
They did it by looking at how light from far-away galaxies has…
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