Did you know that 40 percent of the Universe’s matter was missing? Well, it’s actually an assumption made by the scientists, since this ‘missing’ matter was never detected. Until now, of course. Researchers from France’s National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) claimed that they found the missing 40 percent hidden away in a galaxy-connecting cosmic web, as Futurism details:
The filaments of gas that make up the cosmic web are thought to connect networks of galaxies across vast voids of nothingness in the universe, according to a CNRS press release. Sometimes they also serve as a source of fresh material for nearby galaxies or black holes, making the web itself even more threadbare and faint.
The French researchers suggest that it’s because these cosmic web filaments are so diffuse, and the signals they give off are so weak, that they went undetected for 20 years even though all the data was in plain sight.
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