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Astronomers locate universe's 'missing' matter in the largest cosmic structures
"The 'missing' matter may truly be lurking in hard-to-see threads woven across the universe."
Instead, it is "ordinary matter" made up of atoms, composed of electrons, protons, and neutrons(collectively called baryons) which make up stars, planets, moons, and our bodies. "For the first time, our results closely match what we see in our leading model of the cosmos – something that's not happened before," team leader Konstantinos Migkas of Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands said in a statement. "This research is a great example of collaboration between telescopes, and creates a new benchmark for how to spot the light coming from the faint filaments of the cosmic web," XMM-Newton Project Scientist Norbert Schartel explained.
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