Date: 13/07/2014 17:11:27
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 558864
Subject: 80 Percent of All Light in the Universe is Missing

80 Percent of All Light in the Universe is Missing

Washington, 12 Jul (Prensa Latina) According to observations made by the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope, the Universe is missing 80 percent of all its light.
Astronomers are completely baffled: “We still don’t know for sure what it is, but at least one thing we thought we knew about the present day universe isn’t true.”

Those are the strong words of the co-author of the paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters by Ohio State University’s David Weinberg.

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Date: 13/07/2014 19:03:34
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 558943
Subject: re: 80 Percent of All Light in the Universe is Missing

Maybe the dark matter absorbed it.

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Date: 13/07/2014 19:05:28
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 558945
Subject: re: 80 Percent of All Light in the Universe is Missing

The article is highly confusing.

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Date: 13/07/2014 19:08:32
From: Bubblecar
ID: 558950
Subject: re: 80 Percent of All Light in the Universe is Missing

It’s a bit like the old term “missing mass” – the problem wasn’t really that the mass is missing, but that it’s there. Same with this “missing light” – it’s apparently there, but we don’t know where it comes from.

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Date: 13/07/2014 19:30:42
From: JudgeMental
ID: 558972
Subject: re: 80 Percent of All Light in the Universe is Missing

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/scientists-find-that-80-percent-of-all-light-in-the-uni-1603234995

better written, or not a tranlation. dark matter could be the culprit. this isn’t new as i have seen a tv show which mentions this.

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Date: 13/07/2014 21:41:46
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 559020
Subject: re: 80 Percent of All Light in the Universe is Missing

As this missing stuff is in the nearby universe, not the far away universe, I’d be inclined to put my money on either supernovas or other transient events such as helium flash.

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