{"id":115961,"date":"2020-11-17T08:25:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T16:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/unexpectedly-the-universe-is-getting-hotter-and-hotter-as-it-expands"},"modified":"2020-11-17T08:25:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T16:25:22","slug":"unexpectedly-the-universe-is-getting-hotter-and-hotter-as-it-expands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/unexpectedly-the-universe-is-getting-hotter-and-hotter-as-it-expands","title":{"rendered":"Unexpectedly, The Universe Is Getting Hotter And Hotter as It Expands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unexpectedly-the-universe-is-getting-hotter-and-hotter-as-it-expands.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So the Universe is getting hotter? \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>For almost a century, astronomers have understood that the Universe is in a state of expansion. Since the 1990s, they have come to understand that as of 4 billion years ago, the rate of expansion has been speeding up.<\/p>\n<p>As this progresses, and the galaxy clusters and filaments of the Universe move farther apart, scientists theorize that the mean temperature of the Universe will gradually decline.<\/p>\n<p>But according to new research led by the <a href=\"https:\/\/ccapp.osu.edu\/\">Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics<\/a> (CCAPP) at Ohio State University, it appears that the Universe is actually getting hotter as time goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Universe is getting hotter? \ud83d\ude03 For almost a century, astronomers have understood that the Universe is in a state of expansion. Since the 1990s, they have come to understand that as of 4 billion years ago, the rate of expansion has been speeding up. As this progresses, and the galaxy clusters and filaments [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115961","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}