2022-05-16

The bright areas are where dark matter is most concentrated, and it's here that galaxies form. But the map is not what astronomers expected – the matter should be slightly more clumped9 together. Instead, it's smoother than predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, which helps determine how the matter should have spread out after the Big Bang.

亮处是暗物质最集中的地方，星系就是在这里形成的。但这张地图并不如天文学家所预期的那样，图中的物质本应稍微更聚集在一起。相反，它比爱因斯坦的广义相对论所预期得更平滑，广义相对论帮助确定了物质在大爆炸后应如何分布。

Dr Niall Jeffrey, Ecole Normale Superieure

If the structures in this map are smoother than we expect them to be, which is what the results seem to hint at, it means that Einstein's theory is wrong. So you might think that is a bad thing, that maybe ‘oh no physics is broken', but for a physicist10 it's extremely exciting, because it means that we can find out something new about the way the Universe really is.

奈尔·杰弗里博士      巴黎高等师范学院

“如果这张地图中的结构比我们预期得要平滑，结果似乎也暗示了这一点，那就意味着爱因斯坦的理论是错误的。你可能认为这是一件坏事，也许会想：哦，物理学会彻底瓦解的，但对一名物理学家来说，这是极其令人