'Much more violent than predicted': A chunk of the universe's missing matter was powerfully hurled out of galaxies
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Scientists have long known that galaxies contain far less ordinary matter than expected since the Big Bang. An MIT-led team solved part of this mystery by using fast radio bursts — brief, powerful flashes of radio waves — as cosmic scanners to detect matter between galaxies. They found missing matter extending 4 million light-years beyond galaxies, suggesting black holes and exploding stars are far more violent than previously believed.
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