Small-Scale Concentrations of Dark Matter (Artist’s Impression)
This artist’s impression represents small-scale concentrations of dark matter in the galaxy cluster MACSJ 1206. Astronomers measured the amount of gravitational lensing caused by this cluster to produce a detailed map of the distribution of dark matter in it.
Dark matter is the invisible glue that keeps stars bound together inside a galaxy and makes up the bulk of the matter in the Universe.
Credit:ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
About the Image
| Id: | heic2016c |
| Type: | Artwork |
| Release date: | 10 September 2020, 20:00 |
| Related releases: | heic2016 |
| Size: | 1752 x 1252 px |
About the Object
| Name: | MACS J1206.2-0847, MACSJ1206.2-0847 |
| Type: | Early Universe : Galaxy : Grouping : Cluster Early Universe : Cosmology |
| Category: | Cosmology Galaxies |
