Astronomers Find the Universe’s “Missing” Matter and Most Distant Fast Radio Burst

Scientists Find Universe’s Missing Matter in Intergalactic ‘Cosmic Fog’

Researchers have used cosmic explosions called fast radio bursts to illuminate the intergalactic medium

Astronomers find the universe’s “missing” matter and most distant fast radio burst

Normal matter makes up about a quarter of all the matter in the universe but it turns out that a good portion of it has been hiding from astronomers for decades.  New research published in Nature Astronomy shows how astronomers have found this “missing” matter. Observations of the gravitational forces in galaxies were used to measure the amount of normal, or visible, matter. The rest is dark matter.  At least half of the visible matter – also ca…

Cosmic clues reveal where the universe’s missing matter was hiding

For decades, scientists have been searching for something strange: a huge portion of the universe’s ordinary matter seemed to be missing. Not dark matter, but the everyday kind made of protons and neutrons—called baryonic matter—that makes up stars, planets, and people. While theories predicted where it should be, astronomers simply couldn’t find about half of […] The post Cosmic clues reveal where the universe’s missing matter was hiding appear…

Fast Radio Bursts reveal missing matter in universe

New Delhi: Astronomers have traced the missing matter in the universe using Fast Radio Bursts, and demonstrated that more than three-quarters of the baryonic or ordinary matter in the universe is in the form of wispy gas in the space between galaxies. The research improves the scientific understanding of how matter is distributed across the universe, as well as how it interacts and behaves. For decades, the scientists knew that the universe was …