{"id":123173,"date":"2021-05-29T15:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T22:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/new-dark-matter-map-shows-the-bridges-between-the-milky-way-and-nearby-galaxies"},"modified":"2021-05-29T15:23:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T22:23:29","slug":"new-dark-matter-map-shows-the-bridges-between-the-milky-way-and-nearby-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/new-dark-matter-map-shows-the-bridges-between-the-milky-way-and-nearby-galaxies","title":{"rendered":"New Dark Matter Map Shows The Bridges Between The Milky Way And Nearby Galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-dark-matter-map-shows-the-bridges-between-the-milky-way-and-nearby-galaxies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new map of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/dark-matter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"dark matter\">dark matter<\/a> made using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"artificial intelligence\">artificial intelligence<\/a> reveals hidden filaments of the invisible stuff bridging galaxies.<\/p>\n<p>The map focuses on the local universe \u2014 the neighborhood surrounding the Milky Way. Despite being close by, the local universe is difficult to map because it\u2019s chock full of complex structures made of visible matter, said Donghui Jeong, an astrophysicist at Pennsylvania State University and the lead author of the new research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to reverse engineer to know where dark matter is by looking at galaxies,\u201d Jeong told Live Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new map of dark matter made using artificial intelligence reveals hidden filaments of the invisible stuff bridging galaxies. The map focuses on the local universe \u2014 the neighborhood surrounding the Milky Way. Despite being close by, the local universe is difficult to map because it\u2019s chock full of complex structures made of visible matter, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123173","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=123173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}