Table : APPENDIX L MASS AND ENERGY INVENTORY FOR THE UNIVERSE

 

Individual contribution

Section total

Dark matter and dark energy contributions

 

0.954 ± 0.003*

    Dark energy

0.72 ± 0.03

 

    Dark matter

0.23 ± 0.03

 

    Primeval gravitational radiation

≤10−10

 

Contributions from Big Bang era

 

0.0010 ± 0.0005

    Electromagnetic radiation

10−4.3 ± 0.000001

 

    Neutrinos

10−2.9 ± 0.1

 

Normal particle (baryon) rest mass

 

0.045 ± 0.003

    Charged particles (plasma) between stars and galaxies

0.0418 ± 0.003

 

    Main-sequence stars in elliptical galaxies and nuclear bulges

0.0015 ± 0.0004

 

    Neutral hydrogen and helium

0.00062 ± 0.00010

 

    Main-sequence stars in galactic disks and in irregular galaxies

0.00055 ± 0.00014

 

    White dwarfs

0.00036 ± 0.00008

 

    Molecular gas

0.00016 ± 0.00006

 

    Substellar objects

0.00014 ± 0.00007

 

    Black holes

0.00007 ± 0.00002

 

    Neutron stars

0.00005 ± 0.00002

 

    Planets

10−6 ± 0.1