Dark matter mapped using light from 100 million galaxies

The largest map of dark matter – invisible matter thought to account for 80% of the total matter of the Universe – has been created by a team co-led by Dr Niall Jeffrey and Professor Ofer Lahav (UCL Physics & Astronomy) as part of the Dark Energy Survey (DES).

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