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Astronomy

How Cosmic Shear Maps Reveal the Distribution of Dark Matter

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Cosmic shear maps can reveal dark matter even though it emits no light by measuring the slight stretching of hundreds of millions of distant galaxies.

Why this is interesting

If you could see dark matter, the universe would look like a giant web of invisible filaments. How do astronomers map something they cannot see?