“Engineering student cracks major riddle of the universe”

Big news in the science of astrophysics. I hadn’t heard that anyone was even remotely near figuring out where the universe’s missing mass might be.

Immensely hot, immensely long shoe-strings of matter… who’da thunk? 😉 Might make an interesting component of a hard science fiction story. A space station, slowly moving along one of these and gobbling it for power, maybe?

(Then again, there’s a reason I’m a software developer and not an SF author. 😉 )