What is the universe made of? Shedding light on the mystery of missing ordinary matter
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 13:12
in Physics & Chemistry
Matter known as ordinary, which makes up everything we know, corresponds to only 5% of the Universe. Approximately half of this percentage still eluded detection. Numerical simulations made it possible to predict that the rest of this ordinary matter should be located in the large-scale structures that form the 'cosmic web' at temperatures between 100,000 and 10 million degrees.