In this case, the researchers looked for distortions to light being emitted by
background galaxies caused by foreground dark matter filaments.
Not exact matches
Color variations in an image of the cosmic microwave
background radiation depict temperature fluctuations
caused by seeds of matter that eventually became
galaxies.
The telescope has helped researchers detect such clusters by exploiting a phenomenon known as the Sunyaev - Zel «dovich effect, which
causes massive
galaxy clusters to leave an impression on the cosmic microwave
background: a faint, universe - spanning glow of light left over from the big bang.