substance called dark matter. it can t be seen, but this instrument detected dark matter by the way it distorts style light. this is a map of matter in the universe. astronomers produced this map of how it spread across the cosmos. permeating space, accounting for most of the mass of the universe. the brighter areas where dark matter is most clump together. it is here that galaxies form. it is our reality shining like gems on an unseen tangled cosmic web. but the map is not what astronomers expected. according to einstein s theories the matter should be slightly more clumped together and instead, it s smoother and more spread out. building on the work of einstein, carlos frank was among the scientists who developed the current theory of cosmology. hearing now that there may be something not quite right with the theory