Eric Linder of the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved with the work, agrees that the map backs up the favoured theory that dark matter forms a scaffold on which galaxies form.

• 加州大学伯克利分校的EricLinder虽未参与此项工作，但同样认为此图是对流行的理论：暗物质为星系的形成搭了架子的支持。