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Astronomers locate universe’s ‘missing’ matter

The universe has two kinds of matter. There is invisible dark matter, known only because of its gravitational effects on a grand scale. And there is ordinary matter such as gas, dust, stars, planets and earthly things like cookie dough and canoes. S...

May 22, 2025 6:30 PM

Two galaxies seen in a ‘joust’ preceding a cosmic mega-merger

Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies - both possessing roughly as many stars as our Milky Way - careening toward each other before their inevitable merger at a time when the universe was about a fifth its current age, a scene resembling two...

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