In a map of dark matter, clues to galaxies’ histories
JAN 08, 2007
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.020753
The Christian Science Monitor : The map of the universe, which astronomers have been plotting for some 20 years, reveals that the vast numbers of visible galaxies are not randomly arrayed, but rather display a breathtaking structure. Now scientists are detecting structure in the universe’s unseen “dark matter” - whose gravity herds stars into galaxies and galaxies into enormous clusters tens of millions of light-years across.
© 2007 American Institute of Physics
