UAH Researchers Use X-Rays From Quasars to Answer One of the Three Major Questions in Cosmology: Where Are the Missing Baryons?

UAH Researchers Use X-Rays From Quasars to Answer One of the Three Major Questions in Cosmology: Where Are the Missing Baryons?

Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, have published a series of two papers in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that resolve one of three major outstanding puzzles in cosmology: the "missing baryon problem," a discrepancy between the amount of baryonic matter detected from shortly after the Big Bang when compared with recent epochs.