A team of NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope astronomers were able to generate an image of dark matter (right image) based on how the galaxy cluster ZwCl0024+1652 (nicknamed “Clumpy McDarkmatter”) gravitationally “lenses” the light from galaxies behind it (notice the rings of faint blue smudges around the galaxy cluster in the left image). Dark matter is a subject of great interest for astrophysicists - it is matter that contributes to a large percentage of the mass/gravity of the universe, yet does not interact with electromagnetic phenomena (light, etc.) (outside of gravitational lensing, etc.).
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