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Mapping Dark Matter Matters

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Act lensingWith one of the world’s most powerful telescopes, an international team of astrophysicists including Stony Brook University’s Neelima Sehgal mapped dark matter in our Universe to a level not done before. This visual shows a dark matter map made over 25 percent of the sky. The orange regions have a lot of dark matter and the purple regions have very little. The whitish band shows where dust in our own Milky Way galaxy emits contaminating light, preventing a deeper view.

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Credit: ACT Collaboration

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