Scientists Finally Found the Universe’s Missing ‘Ordinary’ Matter

Scientists have detected the universe's missing ordinary matter, solving a puzzle that's stumped cosmologists for decades. Two converging mysteries gave them the answer, per io9. Ordinary matter—the atoms that make up stars, planets, and everything we can see—has long been theoretically more abundant than direct observation suggested.

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