Light Can Be Obscured, But You Can't Hide Gravity
Giant superclusters of galaxies are huge concentrations of mass, but they can't be weighed accurately by looking at their light alone. Astronomers from Australia, the UK, and the US have just completed the most detailed survey of galaxies in the nearby Universe, which will reveal not only where the galaxies are but also where they're heading, how fast, and why. By measuring the galaxies' movements, the researchers can map the gravitational forces at work in the local Universe, and so show how matter, seen and unseen, is distributed.
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The image is a sphere with the Milky Way in the center? Dumb question/comment but it seems to be the only perpective that makes sense. Neat that any motion not associated with the expansion of the universe is call a "peculiar" motion. :S