Galaxy Zoo Talk

the new dark matter map?

  • mostafa.hst21 by mostafa.hst21

    this image contains 6 object that 1 in the center and 5 others surround it on peak of the Regular Pentagon shape.is this a gravitational lensing effect of black holes or dark matter?

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    Hi mostafa hst21 and welcome to the Zoo !

    This is an infrared image from the UKIDS Survey.

    Here is the optical image (image flipped)

    enter image description here

    Some of the objects surrounding the central galaxy are other galaxies, some of them are foreground stars from our galaxy.

    No lensing here, or evidence of black holes, sorry.

    Hope this helps.

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