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> Dark matter makes up 95% of the universe now?!? The article was very poorly worded. As @infogulch noted, the 5% is of the total energy content of the univers
by privong 11y ago
> Dark matter makes up 95% of the universe now?!?
The article was very poorly worded. As @infogulch noted, the 5% is of the total energy content of the universe, not the "matter" content. So that's been known.
But what seems to be new is that of that 5% of normal (baryonic) matter, we've only been able to account for about half of it (stars, gas in galaxies). These FRB observations claim to have found evidence for the other half of the "missing baryons", likely in hot gas between galaxies.