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Half the Universe's Missing Matter Has Just Been Finally Found (newscientist.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: The missing links between galaxies have finally been found. This is the first detection of the roughly half of the normal matter in our universe -- protons, neutrons and electrons -- unaccounted for by previous observations of stars, galaxies and other bright objects in space. You have probably heard about the hunt for dark matter, a mysterious substance thought to permeate the universe, the effects of which we can see through its gravitational pull. But our models of the universe also say there should be about twice as much ordinary matter out there, compared with what we have observed so far. Two separate teams found the missing matter -- made of particles called baryons rather than dark matter -- linking galaxies together through filaments of hot, diffuse gas. "The missing baryon problem is solved," says Hideki Tanimura at the Institute of Space Astrophysics in Orsay, France, leader of one of the groups. The other team was led by Anna de Graaff at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Because the gas is so tenuous and not quite hot enough for X-ray telescopes to pick up, nobody had been able to see it before.
Sadly that headline was copied verbatim from the New Scientist story.
Or, rather, had just been finally copied.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Well let's hope they find it all at once. Because if they keep only finding half of what's missing we could be here forever.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Or, rather, had just been finally copied.
Much yes. So grammar. Wow.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
It was behind the couch along with all the missing cat toys, single socks and car keys. ;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Tell that to a cunning Linguist, you insensitive clod!
> we can observe it's gravitational interactions
Perhaps it's made of superfluous apostrophes?
Neurons and synapses. The universe is a brain.
The cool kids are spelling it "brane" now.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain