While the rest of the world was celebrating the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle, researchers at the University Observatory Munich and the University of Michigan were fastidiously working on yet another major discovery that will likely also lead to fundamental changes in humanity’s understanding of the universe.

Specifically, scientists announced in a study published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature that they have, for the first time ever, been able to measure dark matter “filament” in a galactic supercluster.