{"id":146217,"date":"2022-09-12T21:23:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T02:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/why-are-dark-matter-halos-of-ultra-diffuse-galaxies-so-odd"},"modified":"2022-09-12T21:23:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T02:23:18","slug":"why-are-dark-matter-halos-of-ultra-diffuse-galaxies-so-odd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/why-are-dark-matter-halos-of-ultra-diffuse-galaxies-so-odd","title":{"rendered":"Why are dark matter halos of ultra-diffuse galaxies so odd?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-are-dark-matter-halos-of-ultra-diffuse-galaxies-so-odd2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study co-led by physicists at UC Riverside and UC Irvine has found that dark matter halos of ultra-diffuse galaxies are very odd, raising questions about physicists\u2019 understanding of galaxy formation and the structure of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Ultra-diffuse galaxies are so called because of their extremely low luminosity. The distribution of baryons\u2014gas and stars\u2014is much more spread out in ultra-diffuse galaxies compared to \u201cnormal\u201d galaxies with similar masses.<\/p>\n<p>In the following Q&amp;A, Hai-Bo Yu, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at UCRhis thoughts on the findings he and UCI\u2019s Manoj Kaplinghat, his long-term collaborator, have published in <i>The Astrophysical Journal<\/i> about newly discovered ultra-diffuse galaxies and their <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dark+matter\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dark matter<\/a> halos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study co-led by physicists at UC Riverside and UC Irvine has found that dark matter halos of ultra-diffuse galaxies are very odd, raising questions about physicists\u2019 understanding of galaxy formation and the structure of the universe. Ultra-diffuse galaxies are so called because of their extremely low luminosity. The distribution of baryons\u2014gas and stars\u2014is much [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146217","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}