"First-Ever Detection of Dark Matter Hanging from the Cosmic Web"

Astronomers have detected dark matter hanging from massive filaments in the cosmic web for the first time using the Subaru Telescope, marking the first-ever observation of dark matter on the cosmic web. This discovery in the Coma Cluster, a collection of over a thousand galaxies, could provide insights into the influence of the cosmic web on the universe's evolution. By utilizing gravitational lensing, the team observed a weak lensing effect of the dark matter component of intracluster filaments, confirming the existence of the large-scale structure spreading across the universe.