{"id":181608,"date":"2024-01-28T14:39:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T20:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/mit-physicists-discover-surprising-twist-in-milky-ways-core"},"modified":"2024-01-28T14:39:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T20:39:17","slug":"mit-physicists-discover-surprising-twist-in-milky-ways-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/mit-physicists-discover-surprising-twist-in-milky-ways-core","title":{"rendered":"MIT physicists discover surprising twist in Milky Way\u2019s core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-physicists-discover-surprising-twist-in-milky-ways-core3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT physicists have discovered a surprising twist in the Milky Way\u2019s rotation curve that challenges our understanding of dark matter. By tracking the speed of stars across the galaxy, they\u2019ve uncovered a potential deficit of dark matter at the galactic core.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, astronomers believed that dark matter was responsible for the galaxy\u2019s rotation. Still, the new analysis raises the possibility that the Milky Way\u2019s gravitational center may be lighter in mass than previously thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT physicists have discovered a surprising twist in the Milky Way\u2019s rotation curve that challenges our understanding of dark matter. By tracking the speed of stars across the galaxy, they\u2019ve uncovered a potential deficit of dark matter at the galactic core. Traditionally, astronomers believed that dark matter was responsible for the galaxy\u2019s rotation. Still, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181608","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}