We May Have Just Found the Universe s Missing Baryonic Matter

Astronomers have finally found evidence to help solve the missing baryon problem, and they re pointing telescopes toward the Intergalactic Medium to figure it out. Hosted by: Hank Green For special, curated artifacts of this universe, check out https://scishowfinds.com/ ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطا الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0204-1 http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/XMM-Newton_finds_missing_intergalactic_material http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/759/1/23 http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/306025/ https://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~komatsu/lecturenotes/Mike_Anderson_on_missing_baryons.pdf [PDF] https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.01260 https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0544 http://www.helsinki.fi/~hkurkisu/cpt/Cosmo11 [PDF] https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9504082 https://wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_matter.html http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/320548 http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/759/1/23/ https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.2375 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.01943.pdf [PDF] http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/427874/ Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ilc_9yr_moll4096.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WHIM.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ions.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:XMM-Newton_spacecraft_model.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%27s_rendering_ULAS_J1120%2B0641.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10663