{"id":103363,"date":"2020-03-06T07:49:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T15:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/did-this-newfound-particle-form-the-universes-dark-matter"},"modified":"2020-03-06T07:49:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T15:49:43","slug":"did-this-newfound-particle-form-the-universes-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/did-this-newfound-particle-form-the-universes-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"Did this newfound particle form the universe\u2019s dark matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/did-this-newfound-particle-form-the-universes-dark-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers think that a newly identified subatomic particle may have formed the universe\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/20930-dark-matter.html\" target=\"_blank\">dark matter<\/a> right after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/25126-big-bang-theory.html\" target=\"_blank\">Big Bang<\/a>, approximately 13.8 billion years ago.<\/p>\n<p>While scientists have determined that up to 80% of the matter in the universe could be dark matter, our understanding of what the mysterious substance might be is still lacking, as no one has ever directly observed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers think that a newly identified subatomic particle may have formed the universe\u2019s dark matter right after the Big Bang, approximately 13.8 billion years ago. While scientists have determined that up to 80% of the matter in the universe could be dark matter, our understanding of what the mysterious substance might be is still lacking, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}