Webb Maps Dark Matter in Unprecedented Detail, Revealing the Cosmic Scaffold
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the sharpest-ever map of dark matter by analyzing how its gravity bends light from nearly 800,000 galaxies in the COSMOS region, showing that dark matter’s invisible scaffolding closely aligns with regular matter and has guided galaxy and star formation—and by extension the conditions for planets like Earth—with Webb revealing finer dark-matter clumps than previous maps and setting the stage for expanded surveys with the Roman Space Telescope.
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