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steve@mastodon.cooleysekula.net ("Stephen Sekula") wrote:
Mysterious fast radio bursts illuminate ‘missing’ cosmic matter | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/16/science/fast-radio-bursts-missing-matter
This is not a about #darkmatter, the 85% of the universe's total matter. Rather, this is about confirming that a great deal of ORDINARY matter is spread thinly as gas in the spaces around and between galaxies. Fast radio burst signals have been used to provide evidence that this is, in fact, the case.