Most of the matter in the Universe is not the ordinary kind made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons, but an elusive "dark matter" detectable only from its gravity. Like a tenuous gas, dark matter is all around us - it goes through us all the time without us noticing - but tends to collect in large quantities around galaxies and clusters of galaxies and makes up about one-sixth of the mass of the Universe. In his talk at the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, Dr Ignacio Ferreras of King’s College London presented maps of the distribution of "ordinary" and dark matter in nine galaxies out to a distance of five billion light-years from the Sun. For the full story: Click Here.

DA Morgan