Can read the rest here https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-28/astronomers-find-universe-missing-matter/12291788

After an intergalactic search lasting more than two decades, an Australian-led team of scientists say they have finally found the universe’s “missing matter”, solving a mystery that has long stumped astronomers.

Since the mid-90s, scientists have been trying to locate half of the universe’s ordinary matter. They believed it was out there because of clues left over from the Big Bang, but it had never been seen.

“What we’re talking about here is what scientists call baryonic matter, which is the normal stuff that you and I are made of,” said Associate Professor Jean-Pierre Macquart, from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research.

Astronomy is full of missing stuff. Most of the universe is understood to be “dark matter” and “dark energy”, which nobody has ever directly seen. But even more of a mystery for astronomers was that they couldn’t find about half the ordinary matter in the universe.

ChrispenEvan said:

Can read the rest here https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-28/astronomers-find-universe-missing-matter/12291788

After an intergalactic search lasting more than two decades, an Australian-led team of scientists say they have finally found the universe’s “missing matter”, solving a mystery that has long stumped astronomers.

Since the mid-90s, scientists have been trying to locate half of the universe’s ordinary matter. They believed it was out there because of clues left over from the Big Bang, but it had never been seen.

“What we’re talking about here is what scientists call baryonic matter, which is the normal stuff that you and I are made of,” said Associate Professor Jean-Pierre Macquart, from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research.

Astronomy is full of missing stuff. Most of the universe is understood to be “dark matter” and “dark energy”, which nobody has ever directly seen. But even more of a mystery for astronomers was that they couldn’t find about half the ordinary matter in the universe.

Thanks. That looks like a very interesting read.

So they are of the opinion that the universe is finite.

Peak Warming Man said:

So they are of the opinion that the universe is finite.

why do you say that?

Peak Warming Man said:

So they are of the opinion that the universe is finite.

I presume they are talking about the little bit of the Universe that we can see (or otherwise observe).

https://www.icrar.org/missingmatter/

Well done Dr Macquart and the team.

There’s a tone of finality about this article that’s inappropriate. This one paper doesn’t resolve the matter once and for all.

ChrispenEvan said:

https://www.icrar.org/missingmatter/

> The researchers were able to directly detect the missing matter using the phenomenon known as fast radio bursts—brief flashes of energy that appear to come from random directions in the sky and last for just milliseconds.

> The radiation from fast radio bursts gets spread out by the missing matter in the same way that you see the colours of sunlight being separated in a prism.

> The missing matter in this case is baryonic or ‘normal’ matter—like the protons and neutrons that make up stars.

> the key was the telescope used, CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP).

> the research team had also pinned down the relationship between how far away a fast radio burst is. We’ve discovered the equivalent of the Hubble constant for fast radio bursts.

Nice work. Blobs of dark baryonic matter such as Lyman alpha blobs have been known for a while, but nobody until now has been able to accurately enough measure the background density of intergalactic matter away from these blobs. Very nice work.

PermeateFree said:

transition said:

PermeateFree said:

Plus he is your dog.

anyways not very amusing, not at all

and master science deserves a verbal smack, for transferring posts, if that were the case

seems to be a devious liberty, if it happened, and was a devious liberty, which he might think about some

What do you mean IF, it is there for all to see if they are interested.

Wait are we still on about this¿