<ul><li>Astronomers discovered a Dark Matter bridge connecting the Perseus Cluster to a subcluster of galaxies, resolving a long-standing mystery in astronomy.</li><li>The international team of astronomers, led by Kim HyeongHan from South Korea, made this discovery using the Subaru Telescope at Maunakea, Hawaii.</li><li>The research paper titled 'Direct Evidence of a Major Merger in the Perseus Cluster' was published in Nature Astronomy on April 16th, 2025.</li><li>The Dark Matter bridge, 1.4 million light-years from the Perseus Cluster's core, is approximately 200 trillion times the mass of the Sun and provides evidence of past gravitational interactions.</li></ul>

Astronomers observe dark matter bridge in the Perseus Cluster

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