The Missing Universe: Where Did Half the Matter Go?
Cosmology knew the answer to four decimal places. The telescopes saw half.
For thirty years, cosmologists had a prediction precise to four decimal places for how much ordinary matter the universe should contain, and every direct count came up half empty. This is the story of the accounting crisis that the dark matter headlines kept out of view, and the three telescopes, in three deserts, that finally closed the books.
One story, one sitting.
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