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Student astronomer finds galactic missing matter – News – The University of Sydney
Half of the universe’s baryonic matter is ‘missing’, but University of Sydney PhD student Yuanming Wang has developed an ingenious method to help track it down.
Lead author of the study, PhD student Yuanming Wang. Photo: Louise Cooper
Astronomers have for the first time used distant galaxies as scintillating pins to locate and identify a piece of the Milky Ways missing matter.
For decades, scientists have been puzzled as to why they couldnt account for all the matter in the universe as predicted by theory. While most of the universes mass is thought to be mysterious dark matter and dark energy, 5 percent is normal matter that makes up stars, planets, asteroids,…
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