A Short History of the Missing Universe
by Katia Moskvitch
Oct 01, 2018
4 minutes
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine‘s Abstractions blog.
he cosmos plays hide-and-seek. Sometimes, though, even when astronomers have a hunch for where their prey might hide, it can take them decades of searching to confirm it. The case of the universe’s —a case that appears to now be closed, as I reported earlier this month—is one such instance. To me, it is a fascinating tale in which clever cosmological models drew a treasure map that took
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