{"id":121049,"date":"2021-03-29T21:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T04:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/mysterious-glow-caught-in-our-galaxys-center-really-could-be-due-to-dark-matter"},"modified":"2021-03-29T21:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T04:23:07","slug":"mysterious-glow-caught-in-our-galaxys-center-really-could-be-due-to-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/mysterious-glow-caught-in-our-galaxys-center-really-could-be-due-to-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Glow Caught in Our Galaxy\u2019s Center Really Could Be Due to Dark Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysterious-glow-caught-in-our-galaxys-center-really-could-be-due-to-dark-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The center of the Milky Way is mysteriously glowing.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, there\u2019s a whole bunch of stars there, along with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"black hole\">black hole<\/a> 4 million times the mass of the Sun \u2014 but subtract the light from all that, and we\u2019re still left with this mysterious excess gamma radiation that suffuses the region.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called the Galactic Center GeV Excess (GCE), and it\u2019s puzzled scientists since its <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0910.2998\">discovery by physicists Lisa Goodenough and Dan Hooper in 2009<\/a>. In data from NASA\u2019s Fermi telescope, they found excess gamma radiation \u2014 some of the most energetic light in the Universe \u2014 and we haven\u2019t been able to directly detect whatever is causing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The center of the Milky Way is mysteriously glowing. Sure, there\u2019s a whole bunch of stars there, along with a black hole 4 million times the mass of the Sun \u2014 but subtract the light from all that, and we\u2019re still left with this mysterious excess gamma radiation that suffuses the region. It\u2019s called the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121049","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=121049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}