Scientists find dark matter a million times more massive than Sun: study

Seeing is not believing when it comes to dark matter.

Scientists have blown stargazers’ collective minds after discovering a massive dark object in space that’s completely invisible to the naked eye, per an awe-inspiring study in the journal Nature Astronomy.

The enigmatic dark matter, which has yet to be named, reportedly has a mass that is a million times greater than the sun but does not emit light, Phys.org reported. This intergalactic blind spot reportedly resides over 10 billion light-years away, so we’re observing it when the Earth was only 6.5 billion years old — less than half of the planet’s current age. 3

Since the dark matter could not be seen, researchers had to observe it via gravitational lensing, in which the light of a more distant object is distorted and deflecte