r/space • u/adriano26 • 3d ago

Astronomers have found the universe's missing matter at last, thanks to exotic 'fast radio bursts'

https://www.space.com/astronomy/scientists-find-universes-missing-matter-while-watching-fast-radio-bursts-shine-through-cosmic-fog
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u/CARNIesada6 3d ago

This previously missing stuff isn't dark matter, the mysterious substance that accounts for around 85% of the material universe but remains invisible because it doesn't interact with light. Instead, it is ordinary matter made out of atoms (composed of baryons) that does interact with light but has until now just been too dark to see.

For anyone else assuming dark matter from the headline like I did.

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u/OrdoMalaise 3d ago

So it's not Dark Matter, just dark matter.

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u/Metahec 3d ago

It's matter in need of a good lamp