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Half the universe’s ordinary matter was missing — and may have been found
At long last, all of the universe’s ordinary matter seems to be present and accounted for. Astronomers have taken a new census of matter in the universe by examining how bright flashes of radio waves from other galaxies, called fast radio bursts, are distorted by particles on their way to Earth. This analysis shows that about half of the universe’s ordinary matter, which has eluded detection for decades, is lurking in intergalactic space, researchers report online May 27 in Nature.
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Half of the observable universe's ordinary matter
FTFY (and even then I find it rather exaggerated, because we can only observe what our infant technology and science lets us observe)