Scientists Discover the Location of the Universe's Missing Matter
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Astronomers have used fast radio bursts (FRBs) to locate the universe's missing ordinary matter, revealing that over three-quarters of it exists as hot, low-density gas between galaxies, solving a decades-old mystery about the distribution of baryonic matter in the cosmos.
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