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ScienceDaily: Dark Matter News

ScienceDaily: Dark Matter News

Something is amiss in the Universe: Cosmic accounting reveals missing light crisis

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 09:17 AM PDT

Something is amiss in the Universe. There appears to be an enormous deficit of ultraviolet light in the cosmic budget. The vast reaches of empty space between galaxies are bridged by tendrils of hydrogen and helium, which can be used as a precise 'light meter.' In a recent study a team of scientists finds that the light from known populations of galaxies and quasars is not nearly enough to explain observations of intergalactic hydrogen. The difference is a stunning 400 percent.
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