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Astronomers used 69 fast radio bursts as cosmic backlights to complete the clearest census yet of the universe’s missing ordinary matter, finding that roughly 76% resides as extremely diffuse ionized gas in the vast spaces between galaxies — while only 9% re - Space Daily

SpacedailySeptember 11, 2026
Astronomers used 69 fast radio bursts as cosmic backlights to complete the clearest census yet of the universe’s missing ordinary matter, finding that roughly 76% resides as extremely diffuse ionized gas in the vast spaces between galaxies — while only 9% re - Space Daily
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The universe’s “missing matter” was never thought to have vanished. Cosmologists could infer how much ordinary, atom-building matter should exist, but direct inventories of stars, cold gas and the ho…

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