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Scientists may have detected the hidden matter of the universe – Tech Explorist

Scientists at the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale (CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay) may have detected, for the first time, this hidden matter through an innovative…

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Galaxies are distributed throughout the universe as a complex network of nodes connected by filaments, which are thus separated by voids. This is known as the cosmic web.
The fibers are thought to contain almost all of the ordinary (so-called baryonic) matter of the universe as a diffuse, hot gas. Nonetheless, the signal emitted by this diffuse gas is feeble to the point that, in reality, 40 to 50% of the baryons go undetected.
These missing baryons are hidden in the filamentary structure of the…

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