Dark matter, one of the most mysterious materials in astrophysics, has been detected for the first time in the universe, with a team from a Korean university using an 8.2-meter optical-infrared telescope in Hawaii to indirectly detect it hanging from the threads of the cosmic web, Space.com reports.
By measuring the effect its gravity has on light, the team from Yonsei University in Seoul identified dark matter in the Coma Cluster, a group of more than one thousand galaxies. In astrophysics, dark matter is thought to be one of the factors responsible for holding the cosmic web–a network of filaments that run billions of light years through space on which matter and energy travel between galaxies–together. The alteration of light from the previously undetected wonder of physics is still more evidence than James Comer has in Biden’s impeachment hunt.