According to our best possible understanding of the universe, regular matter is only a small fraction of the matter-energy ...

The famous picture of colliding galaxy clusters shows evidence for dark matter. But it's a thought experiment that drives it home. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip ...

To understand gravitational lensing and dark matter, James Jee, a professor at Yonsei University, says to think of a pond ...

By observing these galaxy clusters, ... the famous image of thousands of galaxies that in 2004 was the deepest image of the universe ever captured.

The five high-res photos show a hidden galaxy, a star cluster, a famous stellar nursery, and more. Scientists said they hope to use data from Euclid to better understand dark matter and dark energy.

A 2.9 x 2.9 degree field-of-view sky image of the Coma Cluster. (Left) An image from the Digitized Sky Survey (from a digitized photo-plate). Eighteen white squares are the coverage by the Subaru ...

Map of galaxy clusters Abell 222 and 223, with a filiment of dark matter connecting them. The contours and the blue color represent the distribution of mass, as determined by weak lensing.

Astronomers have a model of how galaxy cluster collisions go through different stages, taking on various shapes. A blunt body shape turns into a sharp cone, which turns into a tongue-like shape.

Like other galaxy clusters, Phoenix holds a vast reservoir of hot gas that contains more normal matter than all of the galaxies in the cluster combined. ... The famous Perseus Cluster is an example of ...

The name for this galaxy cluster project is the Frontier Fields. Two of these Frontier Fields galaxy clusters, MACS J0416.1-2403 (MACS J0416) and MACS J0717.5+3745 (MACS J0717) are featured here ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is famous for taking beautiful images of distant galaxies and nebulae, ... Within our galaxy, you can find star clusters that are 10,000 times the mass of the sun.

The Milky Way, our galaxy, has about 150 globular clusters. ... This data, collected using the famous James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), may point to the oldest stars in our universe.