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Astronomers identified a piece of the Milky Way’s missing matter – Tech Explorist
Astronomers have for the first time used distant galaxies as ‘scintillating pins’ to locate and identify a piece of the Milky Way’s missing matter.
The majority of the universe’s mass is believed to be mysterious dark matter and dark energy. 5 percent is ‘normal matter’ that makes up stars, planets, asteroids, etc. This is known as baryonic matter.
For quite a long time, researchers have been puzzled about why they couldn’t represent all the matter in the universe as anticipated by hypothesis.
For the first time, Astronomers used distant galaxies as ‘scintillating pins’ to locate and identify a piece of the Milky Way’s missing matter.
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