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Why is the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) so hot, and what is "collisionless shock heating"?

The Phys.org article Researchers find last of universe's missing ordinary matter says: Ordinary matter, or "baryons," make up all physical objects in existence, from stars to the cores of ...
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