Scientists believe that a quantum leap in computing power and the development of powerful new telescopes will soon unravel the "cosmic web",a theory by which the universe is bound by invisible threads of "dark matter."
In a series of articles in friday’s edition of Science magazine,leading astrophysicists explain how new technologies and experiments being launched in the coming years will open a new window onto the origins and complexities of the universe.
Current tools have granted a rough picture of how the universe was born out of the Big Bang and is held together by the gravitational pull of mysterious "dark matter."But they are not precise enough to truely map the cosmic web,which is said to hold together the 100 billion bright galaxies in the known universe in the known universe,or reveal details like how galaxies form and interact.
When new projects come on line,astrophysicists will be able to use radio waves to look back in time for a picture of the dark days of the universe befire the stars and the planets emerged.