{"id":156790,"date":"2023-02-01T23:25:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T05:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/new-map-of-the-universes-matter-reveals-a-possible-hole-in-our-understanding-of-the-cosmos"},"modified":"2023-02-01T23:25:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T05:25:17","slug":"new-map-of-the-universes-matter-reveals-a-possible-hole-in-our-understanding-of-the-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/new-map-of-the-universes-matter-reveals-a-possible-hole-in-our-understanding-of-the-cosmos","title":{"rendered":"New map of the universe\u2019s matter reveals a possible hole in our understanding of the cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

Scientists have made one of the most precise maps of the universe\u2019s matter, and it shows that something may be missing in our best model of the cosmos.<\/p>\n

Created by pooling data from two telescopes that observe different types of light, the new map revealed that the universe is less \u201cclumpy\u201d than previous models predicted \u2014 a potential sign that the vast cosmic web that connects galaxies is less understood than scientists thought.<\/p>\n

According to our current understanding, the cosmic web is a gigantic network of crisscrossing celestial superhighways paved with hydrogen gas and dark matter<\/a>. Taking shape in the chaotic aftermath of the Big Bang<\/a>, the web\u2019s tendrils formed as clumps from the roiling broth of the young universe; where multiple strands of the web intersected, galaxies eventually formed. But the new map, published Jan. 31 as three<\/a> separate<\/a> studies<\/a> in the journal Physical Review D, shows that in many parts of the universe, matter is less clumped together and more evenly spread out than theory predicts it should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scientists have made one of the most precise maps of the universe\u2019s matter, and it shows that something may be missing in our best model of the cosmos. Created by pooling data from two telescopes that observe different types of light, the new map revealed that the universe is less \u201cclumpy\u201d than previous models predicted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,418,1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-internet","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156790","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}