Latest Space Breaking News: Astronomers uncover missing merger companion and dark matter bridge in the Perseus cluster

Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-astronomers-uncover-merger-companion-dark.html

Summary: An international team of astronomers has solved one of the longstanding cosmic mysteries by uncovering direct evidence of a massive, long-lost object that collided with the Perseus cluster. Using high-resolution data from the Subaru Telescope, the researchers successfully traced the remnant of this ancient merger through the dark matter distribution.