{"id":181358,"date":"2024-01-25T10:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/why-is-the-universe-ripping-itself-apart-a-new-study-shows-dark-energy-may-be-more-complicated-than-we-thought"},"modified":"2024-01-25T10:22:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:22:57","slug":"why-is-the-universe-ripping-itself-apart-a-new-study-shows-dark-energy-may-be-more-complicated-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/why-is-the-universe-ripping-itself-apart-a-new-study-shows-dark-energy-may-be-more-complicated-than-we-thought","title":{"rendered":"Why is the Universe Ripping Itself Apart? A new study shows Dark Energy may be more complicated than we thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-is-the-universe-ripping-itself-apart-a-new-study-shows-dark-energy-may-be-more-complicated-than-we-thought2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is the universe made of? This question has driven astronomers for hundreds of years.<\/p>\n<p>For the past quarter of a century, scientists have believed \u201cnormal\u201d stuff like atoms and molecules that make up you, me, Earth, and nearly everything we can see only accounts for 5% of the universe. Another 25% is \u201cdark matter\u201d, an unknown substance we can\u2019t see but which we can detect through how it affects normal matter via gravity.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining 70% of the cosmos is made of \u201cdark energy\u201d. Discovered in 1998, this is an unknown form of energy believed to be making the universe expand at an ever-increasing rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the universe made of? This question has driven astronomers for hundreds of years. For the past quarter of a century, scientists have believed \u201cnormal\u201d stuff like atoms and molecules that make up you, me, Earth, and nearly everything we can see only accounts for 5% of the universe. Another 25% is \u201cdark matter\u201d, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181358","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}