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Missing Matter in Universe Found


Using Caltech's DSA-110 radio telescope, astronomers pinpoint whereabouts of "fog" between galaxies.

In a new study in Nature Astronomy, a team of astronomers at Caltech and the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has, for the first time, directly detected and accounted for all the missing matter. The findings will help researchers better understand how galaxies grow, and also demonstrate how FRBs can help with problems in cosmology, including the determination of the typical mass of subatomic particles called neutrinos. The radio array will find and localize up to 10,000 FRBs per year, dramatically enhancing their role as probes of normal matter and deepening our overall knowledge of the extreme blasts.

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