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    XMM-Newton Discovers Part of Missing Matter in the Universe

    We're getting the numbers down pretty well now about how much we don't know about the universe: Only about 5% of our universe consists of normal matter, made of atoms. The rest of our universe is composed of elusive matter that we don't understand: dark matter (23%) and dark energy (72%). And [...]

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    I apologise for my ignorance, but is dark energy a form of matter? That sounds confusing...

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