article_snippet: Using the Hubble Space Telescope (shown from Space Shuttle Atlantis in 2009), the team observed distant galaxies that were more than a billion light-years away.
article_snippet: the team were able to work out the pattern of distortion caused by dark matter, and make maps of where it should be .
article_snippet: The researchers created the maps by studying the effects dark matter had on extremely distant galaxies.
article_snippet: Using the Hubble Space Telescope, the team observed distant galaxies that were more than a billion light-years away.
article_snippet: the team were able to work out the pattern of distortion caused by dark matter, and make maps of where it should be.