Astronomers Spot the Universe's Lightless Micro-Object with a Global Telescope Network

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Source: BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Astronomers Spot the Universe's Lightless Micro-Object with a Global Telescope Network
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Astronomers using a network of radio and optical telescopes detected the Universe’s lightless object with about one million solar masses via gravitational lensing, potentially a dense dark-matter clump or an inactive dwarf galaxy, offering a new way to test cold dark matter theories.

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