The teams research waspublishedearlier this month in theJournal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.
Using PRIYA, the team studied spectrograms, which are images of hydrogen emission lines in the universe.
Dark matter is the catch-all name for about 27% of the universes content.
An artist’s imaging of a photon’s path through intergalactic gas. Illustration: UC Riverside
Instruments like theEuclid Space Telescopeare collecting data that could reveal the makeup on the dark universe.
In their recent work, the Lyman-Alpha Forest revealed the locations of dark matter in the universe.
Dark matter gravitates so it has a gravitational potential, Bird said.
The hydrogen gas falls into it, and you use it as a tracer of the dark matter.
Bird presented two leading ideas as to why the two may not match up.
Thankfully we have plenty of observatories bothpresently availableandplannedto collect that data.
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