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Cosmic bursts unveil Universe’s missing matter

May 27, 2020

Astronomers have used mysterious fast radio bursts to solve a decades-old mystery of ‘missing matter’, long predicted to exist in the Universe but never detected—until now.

Cosmic bursts unveil Universe’s missing matter

Early disk galaxy puts formation models in a spin

May 21, 2020

Published today in Nature, an international team of researchers has observed a massive, rotating disk galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—1.5 billion years earlier in cosmic history than astronomers had expected to find such a galaxy based on previous studies.

Early disk galaxy puts formation models in a spin