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Reporting from Sky News, scientists, including from the University of Toronto, have produced a map of dark matter breakthroughs that Albert Einstein had predicted from more than a century ago.
“This research is the result of 15 years of work by more than 160 collaborators at the Chilean Atacama Cosmological Telescope. The manuscripts have been submitted to the Astrophysical Journal,” the page said, quoted Wednesday (12/4/2023).
Richard Bond, a professor from the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, said there was much to be done about dark matter.
“We have very good pictures of it, but we still don’t know exactly what it is,” he said.
Dark matter is hypothesized to make up over 85 percent of the matter in the universe. But its existence used to be a topic of heated debate. This substance is completely invisible and has an important role in the universe.
What’s more difficult, the substance also does not emit or interact with light or other electromagnetic radiation. Ordinary matter has only one-sixth the density of dark matter.