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Galaxy cluster Abell 370 with dark matter map


Date: 25 March 2015
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: Abell 370
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This is a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster Abell 370. Shown in blue on the image is a map of the dark matter found within the cluster. This cluster was part of a study of 72 galaxy cluster collisions which determined that dark matter interacts with other dark matter even less than previously thought.

Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Harvey (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland), R. Massey (Durham University, UK), the Hubble SM4 ERO Team and ST-ECF

Last Update: 1 September 2019
14-Feb-2026 19:15 UT

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