{"id":356852,"date":"2026-01-28T07:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/photojournal\/webb-data-reveals-dark-matter\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T07:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:24:10","slug":"webb-data-reveals-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=356852","title":{"rendered":"Webb Data Reveals Dark Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-article-hero-header nasa-gb-align-full bg-carbon-90 width-full maxw-full color-mode-dark hds-module hds-module-full alignfull wp-block-nasa-blocks-article-hero-header\">\n<div class=\"hds-cover-wrapper width-full maxw-full minh-tablet grid-container minh-tablet flex-column padding-0\">\n<div class=\"hds-foreground-wrapper display-flex flex-direction-column\">\n<div class=\"grid-container grid-container-block margin-top-auto width-full maxw-desktop-lg padding-y-9 padding-x-3 desktop:padding-x-3 z-400\">\n<div class=\"z-400 grid-col-12 tablet:grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-7 z-400\">\n<div class=\"margin-0\">\n<div class=\"label color-spacesuit-white margin-bottom-2\">3 Min Read<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"heading-41 line-height-md color-spacesuit-white-important\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWebb Data Reveals Dark Matter\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-col-12 tablet:grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-5\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"skrim-overlay skrim-left mobile-skrim-top z-200\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"hds-media-background  \"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5285\" height=\"5885\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/psd\/photojournal\/pia\/pia26\/pia26702\/PIA26702.png?w=5285&#038;h=5885&#038;%23038;fit=clip&#038;%23038;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint\" class=\"attachment-1536x1536 size-1536x1536\" alt=\"Containing nearly 800,000 galaxies, this image from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope is overlaid with a map of dark matter, represented in blue. Researchers used Webb data to find the invisible substance via its gravitational influence on regular matter.\" style=\"transform: scale(1.2); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"eager\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/psd\/photojournal\/pia\/pia26\/pia26702\/PIA26702.png?w=5285&#038;h=5885&#038;fit=crop&#038;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 5285w, https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/psd\/photojournal\/pia\/pia26\/pia26702\/PIA26702.png?w=269&#038;h=300&#038;fit=crop&#038;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 269w, https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/psd\/photojournal\/pia\/pia26\/pia26702\/PIA26702.png?w=768&#038;h=855&#038;fit=crop&#038;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 768w, https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/psd\/photojournal\/pia\/pia26\/pia26702\/PIA26702.png?w=920&#038;h=1024&#038;fit=crop&#038;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 920w, https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/psd\/photojournal\/pia\/pia26\/pia26702\/PIA26702.png?w=1379&#038;h=1536&#038;fit=crop&#038;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 1379w, https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/psd\/photojournal\/pia\/pia26\/pia26702\/PIA26702.png?w=1839&#038;h=2048&#038;fit=crop&#038;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 1839w, https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/psd\/photojournal\/pia\/pia26\/pia26702\/PIA26702.png?w=359&#038;h=400&#038;fit=crop&#038;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 359w, https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/psd\/photojournal\/pia\/pia26\/pia26702\/PIA26702.png?w=539&#038;h=600&#038;fit=crop&#038;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 539w, https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/psd\/photojournal\/pia\/pia26\/pia26702\/PIA26702.png?w=808&#038;h=900&#038;fit=crop&#038;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 808w, https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/psd\/photojournal\/pia\/pia26\/pia26702\/PIA26702.png?w=1078&#038;h=1200&#038;fit=crop&#038;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 1078w, https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/psd\/photojournal\/pia\/pia26\/pia26702\/PIA26702.png?w=1796&#038;h=2000&#038;fit=crop&#038;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 1796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5285px) 100vw, 5285px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"padding-y-3 padding-x-3\">\n<div class=\"grid-container grid-container-block padding-x-0\"><figcaption class=\"hds-caption maxw-mobile desktop:padding-x-3\">\n<div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0 color-carbon-30\">\n<div><figcaption>PIA26702<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hds-credits color-spacesuit-white-important\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Credits: <\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>NASA\/STScI\/J. 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Brighter blue areas indicate a higher density of dark matter. Researchers used Webb data to find the dark matter \u2014 which is invisible \u2014 via its gravitational influence on regular matter.<\/p>\n<p>The area of sky shown here is 0.54 square degrees (about 2\u00bd times the size of the full Moon) and located in the constellation Sextans. Webb\u2019s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) peered at this region for a total of about 255 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dark matter doesn\u2019t emit, reflect, absorb, or even block light, and is therefore not visible to the human eye or traditional telescopes. But it does interact with the universe through gravity, and large clumps or clusters of dark matter have enough mass to curve space itself. Light traveling to Earth from distant galaxies becomes slightly distorted as it passes through the curved fabric of spacetime. In some cases, the warping is significant enough that it is apparent to the naked eye, almost as if the galaxy were being viewed through a warped windowpane, an effect called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/hubble\/science\/universe-uncovered\/hubbles-gravitational-lenses\/\" rel=\"noopener\">strong gravitational lensing<\/a>. In the case of the dark matter map shown here, scientists inferred dark matter\u2019s distribution by relying instead on an effect called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/asset\/webb\/gravitational-lensing\/\" rel=\"noopener\">weak gravitational lensing<\/a>, which leads to much more subtle distortions of the light from thousands of galaxies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The dark matter in this area of sky was also mapped in 2007 using data from NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope. The Webb map contains about 10 times more galaxies than do maps of the area made by ground-based observatories and twice as many as Hubble\u2019s map. It reveals new clumps of dark matter and captures a higher-resolution view compared to the Hubble map.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both the Hubble and Webb dark matter maps are part of a project called the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS). The full COSMOS \u201cfield\u201d is 2 square degrees (about 10 times the size of the full Moon) and has been imaged by at least 15 telescopes in space and on the ground.\u00a0Observing the same region with many different telescopes allows scientists to combine complementary views to understand how galaxies grow and how dark matter influences their evolution.\u00a0Only Webb and Hubble data have been used to map dark matter in the region.<\/p>\n<p><a>To refine measurements of the distance to many galaxies for the map, the team used Webb\u2019s Mid-Infrared Instrument (<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/missions\/mid-infrared-instrument-miri\/\" rel=\"noopener\">MIRI<\/a>), designed and managed through launch by the agency\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, along with other space- and ground-based telescopes.\u00a0The wavelengths that MIRI detects also make it adept at detecting galaxies obscured by cosmic dust clouds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The James Webb Space Telescope is solving mysteries in our solar system, looking beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probing the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency).<\/p>\n<p>Webb\u2019s MIRI was developed through a 50-50 partnership between NASA and ESA. A division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, JPL led the U.S. contribution to MIRI. 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