High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) refers to a sparse, hot gas which is believed by cosmologists to exist in the spaces between galaxies and to contain 40–50% of the baryons (that is, 'normal matter' which exists as atoms and molecules, in contrast to dark matter) in the universe at the current epoch.In May 2010 a giant reservoir of WHIM was detected by the Chandra X-ray Observatory lying along the wall shaped structure of galaxies (Sculptor Wall) some 400 million light-years from Earth.

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