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CONTINUATION: Scientists create the first image of dark matter ; A COSMIC BREAKTHROUGH
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the distorted light from half a million faraway galaxies to
reconstruct some of the missing mass of the universe which is
otherwise invisible to conventional telescopes.
"We have, for the first time, mapped the large-scale distribution
of dark matter in the universe," said Richard Massey of the
California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, one of the lead
scientists in the team. "Dark matter is a mysterious and invisible
form of matter, about which we know very little, yet it domina...
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Astronomers Find Clues to Space Mystery // Teams Report Seeing Dark Matter
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Big question, invisible answer,: Scientists on verge of detecting universe's dark matter
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