Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint, low-mass object in the distant cosmos, raising suspicion that it could be made up of dark matter, the elusive substance that makes up nearly 30% of the universe.

The team claims this may be the lowest-mass dark object ever found in the universe, but they haven’t yet been able to determine the nature of this mysterious discovery. Too faint to be seen, the object was found using gravitational lensing, which works by measuring the effect of an object’s gravity on light passing around it.

“Finding low-mass objects such as this one is critical for learning about the nature of dark matter,” study coauthor Chris Fassnacht, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Davis, said in a statement .

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