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Article: Secrets of the universe Using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have created the first map of dark matter, the invisible scaffolding that helped galaxies and stars form in the early universe
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 15, 2007
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If you drove into a wall made of dark matter, you wouldn't crack a
headlight or inflate an airbag. You wouldn't even know it happened.
Dark matter is the most common substance in the universe, and the
most mysterious, and it isn't giving up its secrets any time soon.
"It doesn't interact with light. It doesn't interact with normal
matter. It doesn't shine, it doesn't reflect light. We can't see it,"
said Richard Massey, a postdoctoral researcher at the California
Institute of Technology.
Undeterred by such obstacles, Massey and a team of astronomers
recently created the first-ever large-scale map of dark matter in the
universe. Published in the journal Nature last week, the map confirms
for ...