Dark Matter
In Our Time: Science
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What Is Baryonic Matter?
If you've got mass that's incredibly dark, the obvious place to start is that it is some ordinary matter that's just not luminous. We call this baryonic matter because it's made of atoms and atoms are made of neutrons, protons and electrons which are known as baryons. But there are problems with this interpretation where you cannot get the observations to match. And then the problem is of course you have to go to a much more exotic kind of explanation and that's when we get to non-baryonic matter.
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