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gary
13-10-2017, 04:45 PM
In an article today in the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/12/astronomers-find-half-of-the-missing-matter-in-the-universe), science correspondent Hannah Devlin
reports on the claims of two separate teams of scientists that they have
indirect evidence that accounts for half the missing matter in the Universe.








Article here :-
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/12/astronomers-find-half-of-the-missing-matter-in-the-universe

Papers
"Missing baryons in the cosmic web revealed by the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect", de Graaff et. al. University of Edinburgh
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.10378v1.pdf

"A Search forWarm/Hot Gas Filaments Between Pairs of SDSS
Luminous Red Galaxies", Tanimura et.al. University of British Columbia et. al.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.05024.pdf

Shiraz
15-10-2017, 09:40 PM
really interesting - thanks Gary

looks like the issue is not altogether resolved though https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/10/10/missing-matter-found-but-doesnt-dent-dark-matter/#159db99cfaf7

cheers Ray

gary
15-10-2017, 10:52 PM
Thanks for the link Ray.