In other words, astronomers have found the address of the universe’s long-lost matter—and it’s right there in the void. Illuminating the Cosmic Fog. To reach this conclusion, Connor and his team analyzed 60 fast radio bursts collected from galaxies ranging from 12 million to over 9 billion light-years away., Half of ordinary matter in universe has long been 'missing.' Astronomers just found it. Revelations made possible by studying radio waves hurtling through space suggest that violent cosmic forces , Cambridge, MA— A new landmark study has pinpointed the location of the Universe's "missing" matter, and detected the most distant fast radio burst (FRB) on record. Using FRBs as a guide, astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) and Caltech have shown that more than three-quarters of the Universe's ordinary matter has been hiding in the thin gas between , A new landmark study has pinpointed the location of the universe's "missing" matter, and detected the most distant fast radio burst (FRB) on record. Using FRBs as a guide, astronomers at the , Much of the "missing" matter is spread thinly through the space between galaxies, according to the study, which was published June 16 in the journal Nature Astronomy. Baryonic matter, which is , .