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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes up 5% of the universe. There was just one problem—they had no idea where most of it was.

For anyone like me who's brain went immediately to dark matter after reading the headline, it's related but not the dark matter itself.