{"id":113849,"date":"2020-10-04T11:28:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T18:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/hubble-detects-smallest-known-dark-matter-clumps"},"modified":"2020-10-04T20:35:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T03:35:15","slug":"hubble-detects-smallest-known-dark-matter-clumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/hubble-detects-smallest-known-dark-matter-clumps","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Detects Smallest Known Dark Matter Clumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-detects-smallest-known-dark-matter-clumps2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope and a new observing technique, astronomers have found that dark matter forms much smaller clumps than previously known. This result confirms one of the fundamental predictions of the widely accepted \u201ccold dark matter\u201d theory.<\/p>\n<p>All galaxies, according to this theory, form and are embedded within clouds of dark matter. Dark matter itself consists of slow-moving, or \u201ccold,\u201d particles that come together to form structures ranging from hundreds of thousands of times the mass of the Milky Way galaxy to clumps no more massive than the heft of a commercial airplane. (In this context, \u201ccold\u201d refers to the particles\u2019 speed.) <\/p>\n<p>The Hubble observation yields new insights into the nature of dark matter and how it behaves. \u201cWe made a very compelling observational test for the cold dark matter model and it passes with flying colors,\u201d said Tommaso Treu of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a member of the observing team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope and a new observing technique, astronomers have found that dark matter forms much smaller clumps than previously known. This result confirms one of the fundamental predictions of the widely accepted \u201ccold dark matter\u201d theory. All galaxies, according to this theory, form and are embedded within clouds of dark matter. Dark [\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-113849","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\/113849","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=113849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113879,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113849\/revisions\/113879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}