{"id":11778,"date":"2014-07-08T20:15:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T03:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11778"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:27:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:27:59","slug":"something-is-amiss-with-light-in-the-universe-photons-may-be-coming-from-some-exotic-unknown-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/something-is-amiss-with-light-in-the-universe-photons-may-be-coming-from-some-exotic-unknown-source","title":{"rendered":"Something is Amiss with Light in the Universe \u2013\u201cPhotons May Be Coming from Some Exotic Unknown Source\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Galaxy<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-body\">The vast reaches of empty space between galaxies are bridged by tendrils of hydrogen and helium, which can be used as a precise \u201clight meter.\u201d In a recent study published in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Astrophysical Journal\" href=\"http:\/\/iopscience.org\/apj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">The Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/a>, a team of scientists finds that the light from known populations of galaxies and quasars is not nearly enough to explain observations of intergalactic hydrogen. The difference is a stunning 400 percent.<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-body\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-more\" style=\"float: left;\">\u201cThe most exciting possibility is that the missing photons are coming from some exotic new source, not galaxies or quasars at all,\u201d said Neal Katz a co-author from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. For example, the mysterious dark matter, which holds galaxies together but has never been seen directly, could itself decay and ultimately be responsible for this extra light.<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-more\" style=\"float: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygalaxy.com\/my_weblog\/2014\/07\/something-is-amiss-with-light-in-the-universe-photons-may-be-coming-from-some-exotic-unknown-source-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Galaxy The vast reaches of empty space between galaxies are bridged by tendrils of hydrogen and helium, which can be used as a precise \u201clight meter.\u201d In a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of scientists finds that the light from known populations of galaxies and quasars is not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56694,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778\/revisions\/56694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}