How to discover the hidden matter of the Universe?

Have we discovered the hidden matter of the Universe?

© Tanimura, Aghanim (CNRS / Univ Paris Saclay)

By: Caroline Lachowsky

2 min

Meet the astrophysicist Nabila Aghanim who tracks down the baryons hidden in the cosmic web: sidereal, astounding and astronomical! 

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Let's go to the discovery of the hidden matter of the Universe!

Almost 40% all the same of the ordinary matter (which constitutes the whole universe, from the galaxies to our stardust) was mysteriously missing.

Unobservable, undetectable until November 6, 2020, when our guest, astrophysicist and cosmologist

Nabila Aghanim

and her team from the Institute of Space Astrophysics at CNRS / Université Paris Saclay succeeded in highlighting, for the first time, these baryons missing in the cosmic web of the Universe ... Sidereal and astonishing, enough to open a new window on the origin of the world and its evolution ...

With the astrophysicist and cosmologist 

Nabila Aghanim 

on her latest discoveries around the hidden matter of the Universe ...

And our monthly

Ciel d'Afrique 

column

in partnership with

Astronomie Afrique

and presented by planetologist Sylvain Bouley to look at the stars, constellations and planets from the continent, between January 15 and February 15, 2021!

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