{"id":172187,"date":"2023-09-17T00:41:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T05:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/mysterious-dark-matter-mapped-across-space-like-never-before"},"modified":"2023-09-17T00:41:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T05:41:11","slug":"mysterious-dark-matter-mapped-across-space-like-never-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/mysterious-dark-matter-mapped-across-space-like-never-before","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Dark Matter Mapped Across Space Like Never Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysterious-dark-matter-mapped-across-space-like-never-before3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The curvature of space-time around a colossal mass has yielded the most detailed measurement of the cosmic distribution of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/dark-matter\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">dark matter<\/a> yet.<\/p>\n<p>Aided by a gravitational lens, a team led by cosmologist Kaiki Taro Inoue of Kindai University in Japan has mapped the mysterious form of matter on the smallest scale we\u2019ve ever seen, with a resolution of just 30,000 light-years.<\/p>\n<p>That might seem large, but when you consider that the Milky Way is about <a href=\"https:\/\/imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov\/features\/cosmic\/milkyway_info.html\">100,000 light-years across<\/a>, it\u2019s more impressive. The researchers have been able to map something we can\u2019t even see down to a scale less than a third of the size of our galaxy, across more than 7.5 billion light-years. That\u2019s amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The curvature of space-time around a colossal mass has yielded the most detailed measurement of the cosmic distribution of dark matter yet. Aided by a gravitational lens, a team led by cosmologist Kaiki Taro Inoue of Kindai University in Japan has mapped the mysterious form of matter on the smallest scale we\u2019ve ever seen, with [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172187","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=172187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}