Map of Dark Matter (IMAGE)

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Map of Dark Matter

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Map of dark matter made from gravitational lensing measurements of 26 million galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey. Red regions have more dark matter than average, blue regions less dark matter.

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Chihway Chang/University of Chicago/DES collaboration

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