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"Fast radio bursts shine through the fog of the intergalactic medium, and by precisely measuring how the light slows down, we can weigh that fog, even when it's too faint to see." ...
Of the 69 FRBs used by the team, 39 were discovered by a network of 110 radio telescopes located at Caltech's Owen Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) called the Deep Synoptic Array (DSA). The DSA was ...
Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.
A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...
The aforementioned models of the cosmos, including the standard model of cosmology, have long posited the idea that the ...
There's been a lot of discussion over the years about what the universe is made up of. While some argue that dark matter is holding … The post Astronomers just found the universe’s ‘missing matter’ ...
Astronomers have finally tracked down missing "ordinary" matter, which they discovered hiding as gas spread out in the vast ...
The object 9.1 billion light-years away, named FRB 20230521B, now holds the record for the most distant FRB ever recorded.
Scientists use fast radio bursts to locate half of the universe's ordinary matter dispersed in intergalactic space, solving a ...
Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...
Half of ordinary matter in universe has long been 'missing.' Astronomers just found it. Revelations made possible by studying radio waves hurtling through space suggest that violent cosmic forces ...
The universe has two kinds of matter. There is invisible dark matter, known only because of its gravitational effects on a ...