“The models were right”: astronomers find ‘missing’ matter Astronomers discover vast filament of ‘missing’ matter Open Image Konstantinos and colleagues characterised the filament by combining X-ray observations from XMM-Newton and Suzaku, and digging into optical data from several others The two X-ray telescopes were ideal partners
Astronomers just found the universes missing matter: Here . . . The 69 radio frequencies the team studied were located at distances ranging up to about 9 1 billion light-years from Earth – making the furthest one the most distant fast radio burst ever recorded
A New GPS for the Intergalactic Medium: Astronomers Have . . . Cambridge, MA— A new landmark study has pinpointed the location of the Universe's "missing" matter, and detected the most distant fast radio burst (FRB) on record Using FRBs as a guide, astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard Smithsonian (CfA) and Caltech have shown that more than three-quarters of the Universe's ordinary matter has been hiding in the thin gas between
Radio bursts reveal universe’s ‘missing matter’ - Science Astronomers have located a vast cache of previously unseen matter by probing the voids between galaxies with pulses of radio waves from distant explosions More than three-quarters of the universe’s normal atomic matter is hiding in those vast intergalactic spaces as tenuous clouds of warm gas, the researchers report today in Nature Astronomy
Astronomers Finally Find the Universe’s Missing Matter with . . . This artist's conception depicts a bright pulse of radio waves (the FRB) on its journey through the fog between galaxies, known as the intergalactic medium Long wavelengths, shown in red, are slowed down compared to shorter, bluer wavelengths, allowing astronomers to "weigh" the otherwise invisible ordinary matter Credit: Melissa Weiss CfA