Scientists are looking for dark matter to understand the universe’s ‘hidden web’

Scientists are looking for dark matter to understand the universe’s ‘hidden web’

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After counting all the normal, luminous matter in the obvious places of the universe – galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the intergalactic medium – about half of it is still missing. So not only is 85 percent of the matter in the universe made up of an unknown, invisible substance dubbed “dark matter,” we can’t even find all the small amount of normal matter that should be there. This is known as the “missing baryons” problem. Baryons are particles that emit or absorb light, like protons, neutrons or electrons, which make up the matter we see around us. The baryons unaccounted…

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Scientists are looking for dark matter to understand the universe’s ‘hidden web’
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