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Dark Matter: High-Resolution Map Reveals Its Impact on the Universe

Published January 27, 2026, 10:16
Dark Matter: High-Resolution Map Reveals Its Impact on the Universe

Scientists have created a high-resolution map of dark matter in the Universe, using images from the James Webb Space Telescope. The map reveals how dark matter has influenced the formation of stars, galaxies, and planets over the last ten billion years. The research team measured the shapes of approximately 250,000 galaxies in an area of two square degrees of the sky, known as the COSMOS region. The map is twice as detailed as previous ones and contains ten times more galaxies. Dark matter, which makes up 85% of the matter in the Universe, interacts with the rest of the Universe through gravity, which is confirmed by the overlap between the maps of dark and normal matter. The scientists plan to extend the mapping to the entire Universe.