By measuring some of these large bubbles, Norio Kaifu, the head of the project in Hawaii, hopes that Subaru will provide astronomers with a clearer idea of what, if it actually exists, the dark matter really is.
Interestingly, an incident of this sort occurred near the end of last year when Prime Minister Kaifu made public reference to a possible assistance-for-islands deal with the USSR only to have the notion walked back by the Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs.