No, this study didn’t deal with dark matter, that’s not the missing matter they’re taking about. They’ve known that the ordinary matter in the galaxies only accounts for a small fraction of the matter in the universe, and there were theories about how much matter was in the space between galaxies. This study looked at radio waves being emitted by distant sources, and looked at how much those waves were defracted by pasted through matter, which corroborated that yes, there’s a lot of matter between galaxies.
Does this mean we finally know what dark matter is? Or at least what parts of it are?
No, this study didn’t deal with dark matter, that’s not the missing matter they’re taking about. They’ve known that the ordinary matter in the galaxies only accounts for a small fraction of the matter in the universe, and there were theories about how much matter was in the space between galaxies. This study looked at radio waves being emitted by distant sources, and looked at how much those waves were defracted by pasted through matter, which corroborated that yes, there’s a lot of matter between galaxies.
So the stuff that was corroborated in this study was part of the fraction of matter we already had an explanation for, right?
Yeah, it validated the theory.
My understanding is that we still don’t know what it IS, but we now have corroboration that it EXISTS and roughly what it WEIGHS.
Yes thats also my layman understanding