Anonymous
ID: BRlkgln5
6/21/2025, 9:31:43 PM No.508221647
the missing matter is not dark matter but there really was a missing part that weighs as much as the supposed dark matter
https://www.space.com/astronomy/astronomers-turn-up-missing-matter-in-the-largest-structures-in-the-cosmos-the-models-were-right
It's not dark matter, he said. But astronomers have discovered "a vast tendril of hot gas linking four galaxy clusters and stretching out for 23 million light-years, 230 times the length of our galaxy.
"With 10 times the mass of the Milky Way, this filamentary structure accounts for much of the universe's 'missing matter,' the search for which has baffled scientists for decades...."
It is just "ordinary matter" made up of atoms, composed of electrons, protons, and neutrons (collectively called baryons) which also make up stars, planets, moons, and our bodies.
This discovery of that missing matter suggests our best models of the universe were right all along. Except we were wrong what the missing element was and came up with "dark matter" which was a mistake.
It could also reveal more about the "Cosmic Web," the vast structure along which entire galaxies grew and gathered during the earlier epochs of our
>13.8 billion-year-old universe....
The newly observed filament isn't just extraordinary in terms of its mass and size; it also has a temperature of a staggering 18 million degrees Fahrenheit. That's around 1,800 times hotter than the surface of the sun...
But now thanks to Suzuki, a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) satellite, and the European Space Agency's XML-Newton, "a team of astronomers has for the first time been able to determine the properties of one of these filaments, which links four galactic clusters in the local universe."
Team leader Konstantinos Migkas explained the significance of their finding. "For the first time, our results closely match what we see in our leading model of the cosmos — something that's not happened before."
https://www.space.com/astronomy/astronomers-turn-up-missing-matter-in-the-largest-structures-in-the-cosmos-the-models-were-right
It's not dark matter, he said. But astronomers have discovered "a vast tendril of hot gas linking four galaxy clusters and stretching out for 23 million light-years, 230 times the length of our galaxy.
"With 10 times the mass of the Milky Way, this filamentary structure accounts for much of the universe's 'missing matter,' the search for which has baffled scientists for decades...."
It is just "ordinary matter" made up of atoms, composed of electrons, protons, and neutrons (collectively called baryons) which also make up stars, planets, moons, and our bodies.
This discovery of that missing matter suggests our best models of the universe were right all along. Except we were wrong what the missing element was and came up with "dark matter" which was a mistake.
It could also reveal more about the "Cosmic Web," the vast structure along which entire galaxies grew and gathered during the earlier epochs of our
>13.8 billion-year-old universe....
The newly observed filament isn't just extraordinary in terms of its mass and size; it also has a temperature of a staggering 18 million degrees Fahrenheit. That's around 1,800 times hotter than the surface of the sun...
But now thanks to Suzuki, a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) satellite, and the European Space Agency's XML-Newton, "a team of astronomers has for the first time been able to determine the properties of one of these filaments, which links four galactic clusters in the local universe."
Team leader Konstantinos Migkas explained the significance of their finding. "For the first time, our results closely match what we see in our leading model of the cosmos — something that's not happened before."
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