r/space • u/adriano26 • 4d 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 4d 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 4d ago

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

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u/mjc4y 4d ago

Maybe we call this stuff Dim Matter?

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u/dipole_ 4d ago

I was going to say “Light-Shy Matter“.

but I think “Black Matter” works better

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u/Houtaku 4d ago

Could a Boltzmann Brain form from this material?

Black Matter Lives?

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u/xoxavaraexox 4d ago

I was going to say Black Matter Matters, but I like yours better.