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  • ASTRONOMERS FIND PART OF UNIVERSE’S MISSING MATTER

    02/03/2005 7:40:50 AM PST · by PatrickHenry · 135 replies · 2,559+ views
    Ohio State University ^ | 02 February 2005 | News Office Staff
    Found: 7 percent of the mass of the universe. Missing since: 10 billion years ago. Consider one more astronomical mystery solved. Scientists have located a sizeable chunk of the universe that seemed to be missing since back when the stars first formed. It’s floating in super-hot rivers of gas, invisible to the naked eye, surrounding galaxies like our own. And a completely different kind of mystery matter -- dark matter -- may have put it there. The results appear in the current issue of the journal Nature. To make this latest discovery, astronomers at Ohio State University and their colleagues...
  • Scientists Seek 'Dark Energy' That's Filling In the Universe

    10/20/2002 2:48:21 PM PDT · by PatrickHenry · 19 replies · 440+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 18 October 2002 | SHARON BEGLEY
    <p>The creative bookkeeping at some accounting-challenged firms is nothing compared with what cosmologists must do to balance the universe's ledgers. But thanks to their efforts to make the numbers come out right, these scientists have stumbled on an improbable coincidence: The amount of a mysterious energy that seems to pervade the cosmos is precisely what is needed to allow for the emergence of stars, planets and life itself.</p>