Scientists discover universe's missing matter

Jaskiran Kaur (ibtimes.co.uk, 5/28/20); Pat Macpherson, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Scientists discover universe's "missing matter"

Soon we will reveal ourselves and explain.

Astronomers have discovered the normal missing matter of the universe they have been looking for for 30 years.

Our universe harbors several mysteries that scientists have been trying to resolve for centuries. Cosmic matter and its activities are still beyond our understanding.

However, in the latest development, astronomers may have solved one of the biggest puzzles of the universe found the universe's "missing matter."

Where has the "matter" (rupa) been hiding?

For decades, astronomers have been aware of the existence of "missing matter" of the universe.

However, the origin and source of the strange aspect of the universe remained still undetected until now. The international team of researchers has now discovered from where the missing baryonic matter is located.

Now, the researchers used mysterious fast radio bursts also known as FRBs — powerful millisecond bursts of radio pulse caused by mysteriously occurring high-energy astrophysical process — to find the matter, what causes them and where it can be traced back to.

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The scientists have now discovered all of the missing "normal" matter in the vast space between stars and galaxies. The results of the study were published in a journal named Nature.

According to the report, the astronomers have been aware of the missing material for 30 years.

"We know from measurements of the Big Bang how much matter there was at the beginning of the Universe," Lead author Associate Professor Jean-Pierre Macquart, from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) said in a news release statement.

But when we looked out into the present Universe, we couldn't find half of what should be there. It was a bit of an embarrassment. More