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Scientists use fast radio bursts to locate half of the universe's ordinary matter dispersed in intergalactic space, solving a cosmic mystery.
A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...
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.
This hidden matter has been mapped using FRBs, intense millisecond-long pulses from galaxies located far away. With the help of 70 FRBs, which included one from 9 billion light years away, the ...
Fermi balls might be more important than scientists previous considered. Now, this phenomenon from the early stages of the ...
Deep in the center of our galaxy, scientists believe a strange type of star may be quietly glowing—not from fusion like our ...
This artist's conception depicts ordinary matter in the warm, thin gas making up the intergalactic medium (IGM)—which has ...
In a groundbreaking study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists from ETH Zurich, in collaboration with teams from ...
The object 9.1 billion light-years away, named FRB 20230521B, now holds the record for the most distant FRB ever recorded.
New observations support the idea that hot, diffuse threads of gas called cosmic filaments connect clusters of galaxies ...
For one, scientists observe a "cosmic fossil" called the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The first light that was free to ...