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Article: JHU-STSCI Team Maps Dark Matter in Startling Detail.
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- December 9, 2005
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Byline: Johns Hopkins University
BALTIMORE, Dec. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Clues revealed by the recently sharpened view of the Hubble Space Telescope have allowed astronomers to map the location of invisible "dark matter" in unprecedented detail in two very young galaxy clusters.
A Johns Hopkins University-Space Telescope Science Institute team reports its findings in the December issue of Astrophysical Journal. (Other, less-detailed observations appeared in the January 2005 issue of that publication.)
The team's results lend credence to the theory that the galaxies we can see form at the densest regions of "cosmic webs" of invisible dark ...