{"id":103591,"date":"2020-03-10T23:42:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T06:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/lowly-slime-mold-enables-new-map-of-local-cosmic-web"},"modified":"2020-03-10T23:42:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T06:42:22","slug":"lowly-slime-mold-enables-new-map-of-local-cosmic-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/lowly-slime-mold-enables-new-map-of-local-cosmic-web","title":{"rendered":"Lowly Slime Mold Enables New Map Of Local Cosmic Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lowly-slime-mold-enables-new-map-of-local-cosmic-web2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope\u2019s Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, the team was able to observe the distinctive absorption signature in the spectrum of light that passes through it, and the sight-lines of hundreds of distant quasars that pierce the volume of space occupied by the SDSS galaxies, says the university.<\/p>\n<p>This lowly slime mold does a good job of characterizing the large-scale structure of the Universe over a wide range of scale, Burchett told me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see how it works from a mathematical and [topological] perspective, but that doesn\u2019t diminish my continued amazement that the slime mold-inspired method handles this difficult problem so elegantly and efficiently,\u201d Burchett told me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope\u2019s Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, the team was able to observe the distinctive absorption signature in the spectrum of light that passes through it, and the sight-lines of hundreds of distant quasars that pierce the volume of space occupied by the SDSS galaxies, says the university. This lowly slime mold [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103591","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\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}