Dark matter is an essential ingredient in our modern understanding of the Universe. However, its fundamental role in cosmology is matched only by its conspicuous …
The Universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. The mysterious source of this acceleration has been dubbed "dark energy" and constitutes 70% of the …
In recent years, weak gravitational lensing has become an indispensable method for understanding the concentration of matter on the largest scales. Galaxy clusters, the largest …
Discovering dark matter (DM) and establishing its cosmological properties within the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) framework has been one of the major successes of 20th …