Researchers say they have found about half of the universe’s missing matter hidden in the spaces between billions of galaxies thanks to the Hubble telescope.

This normal matter, which is called baryons, was created during and after the Big Bang, and should not be confused with dark matter, researchers said.

“We think we are seeing the strands of a web-like structure that forms the backbone of the universe,” said astronomer Mike Shull of the University of Colorado after an extensive search of the local universe.

“What we are confirming in detail is that intergalactic space, which intuitively might seem to be empty, is in fact the reservoir for most of the normal, baryonic matter in the universe.”

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