{"id":146070,"date":"2022-09-10T19:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/a-sneaky-interloper-behind-our-galaxys-center-complicates-the-search-for-dark-matter"},"modified":"2022-09-10T19:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:22:18","slug":"a-sneaky-interloper-behind-our-galaxys-center-complicates-the-search-for-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/a-sneaky-interloper-behind-our-galaxys-center-complicates-the-search-for-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"A sneaky interloper behind our galaxy\u2019s center complicates the search for dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Omo_fnPK9Ts?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, not so fast.<\/p>\n<p>Crocker\u2019s paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-022-01777-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">published Monday in the journal <em>Nature Astronomy,<\/em><\/a> argues that this \u201csubstructure\u201d doesn\u2019t belong to the Fermi bubble at all but instead a satellite galaxy <em>behind<\/em> the bubble (from our galactic perspective) called the Dwarf Sagittarius Spheroidal Galaxy, or Sagittarius dSph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not so fast. Crocker\u2019s paper, published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, argues that this \u201csubstructure\u201d doesn\u2019t belong to the Fermi bubble at all but instead a satellite galaxy behind the bubble (from our galactic perspective) called the Dwarf Sagittarius Spheroidal Galaxy, or Sagittarius dSph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146070","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}