Astronomers Just Found a Dark Matter Bridge Connecting Two Colliding Galaxies!

In July 2023, the European Agency (ESA) launched the Euclid mission, a probe aimed at studying one of the great astronomical enimgas: what dark matter is. Euclid is designed to improve understanding of the “mysterious” components of the Universe, known as dark matter and dark energy. Unlike the normal matter we experience here on Earth, dark matter does not reflect or emit light. It unites galaxies and is believed to constitute approximately 80%…

Astronomers Just Found a Dark Matter Bridge Connecting Two Colliding Galaxies!

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the Perseus galaxy cluster, located 240 million light-years from Earth. For the first time, a dark matter bridge has been detected linking two galaxies that are in the process of colliding. A Cosmic Revelation: The Dark Matter Bridge Published on April 16 in Nature Astronomy focuses on a newly detected subcluster located 1.4 million light-years west of NGC 1275, the central galaxy of the Perseu…