{"id":168512,"date":"2023-07-28T18:35:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T23:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/the-hunt-for-dark-matter-is-further-along-than-you-think"},"modified":"2023-07-28T18:35:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T23:35:36","slug":"the-hunt-for-dark-matter-is-further-along-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/the-hunt-for-dark-matter-is-further-along-than-you-think","title":{"rendered":"The hunt for dark matter is further along than you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-hunt-for-dark-matter-is-further-along-than-you-think2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dark matter isn\u2019t just floating around filling up empty space. Importantly, it is found in clumps and structures, similar to ordinary matter. It forms the structure onto which ordinary matter gloms and is thought to be responsible for the structures of galaxies and the universe as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that galaxies form in the scaffold that dark matter produces,\u201d astronomer and early universe researcher Steve Wilkins of the University of Sussex explained. \u201cIt is an integral part of our universe to explain what we see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have a firm theoretical handle on what dark matter should be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark matter isn\u2019t just floating around filling up empty space. Importantly, it is found in clumps and structures, similar to ordinary matter. It forms the structure onto which ordinary matter gloms and is thought to be responsible for the structures of galaxies and the universe as a whole. \u201cWe know that galaxies form in the [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168512","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=168512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}