New findings that map the universe’s cosmic growth support Einstein’s theory of gravity and dark matter

Amazing stuff! With new and better instruments come new discoveries! What a gigantic effort by about 160 researchers/collaborators!

"The findings, from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope ... provide further support to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which has been the foundation of the standard model of cosmology for more than a century. The results offer new methods to demystify dark matter, the unseen mass thought to account for 85% of the matter in the universe. ...

Now, a set of papers submitted to The Astrophysical Journal by researchers from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced a new image that reveals the most detailed map of matter distributed across a quarter of the entire sky, reaching deep into the cosmos. It confirms Einstein’s theory about how massive structures grow and bend light, with a test that spans the entire age of the universe.

“We have mapped the invisible dark matter across the sky to the largest distances, and clearly see features of this invisible world that are hundreds of millions of light-years across,” ..."

New findings that map the universe’s cosmic growth support Einstein’s theory of gravity | University of Cambridge A new image reveals the most detailed map of dark matter distributed across a quarter of the entire sky, reaching deep into the cosmos.