{"id":148773,"date":"2022-10-24T02:22:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T07:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-have-captured-the-first-ever-image-of-dark-matter"},"modified":"2022-10-24T02:22:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T07:22:32","slug":"scientists-have-captured-the-first-ever-image-of-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-have-captured-the-first-ever-image-of-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Captured the First-Ever \u201cImage\u201d of Dark Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-captured-the-first-ever-image-of-dark-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario say they\u2019ve captured the first composite image of something that \u2013 although astronomers have talked about it for decades \u2013 has been hitherto unseen, and in fact undetected. They say it\u2019s an image of dark matter, a connection point in the great cosmic web in which our universe\u2019s billions of galaxies are thought to be embedded. The Royal Astronomical Society, which published the new work in its peer-reviewed Monthly Notices, said in a statement:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario say they\u2019ve captured the first composite image of something that \u2013 although astronomers have talked about it for decades \u2013 has been hitherto unseen, and in fact undetected. They say it\u2019s an image of dark matter, a connection point in the great cosmic web in which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148773","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}