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Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have produced one of the most detailed maps to date of dark matter. By measuring how gravity from unseen matter bends the light of background galaxies, the map shows how dark matter acts as the hidden framework on which visible galaxies are built. Here the Dark matter map from the JWST telescope is framed inside the original HST map from 2007.
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Dr Gavin Leroy/Professor Richard Massey/COSMOS-Webb collaboration.
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