{"id":189492,"date":"2024-05-15T23:23:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T04:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/the-dark-universe-why-were-about-to-solve-the-biggest-mystery-in-science"},"modified":"2024-05-15T23:23:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T04:23:05","slug":"the-dark-universe-why-were-about-to-solve-the-biggest-mystery-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/the-dark-universe-why-were-about-to-solve-the-biggest-mystery-in-science","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Universe: Why we\u2019re about to solve the biggest mystery in science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-dark-universe-why-were-about-to-solve-the-biggest-mystery-in-science2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tiny, fuzzy blobs. I\u2019ve spent a lot of time in the last few years looking at images of tiny, fuzzy blobs. They\u2019re only ever a few pixels wide, like smudges on a photo, but they could be the key that unlocks the mystery of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/space\/what-is-dark-matter\">dark matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The blobs are galaxies: swirling pools of stars and planets suspended in space, millions of light-years away from Earth. The images were collected by an advanced camera with a 1m (3.3ft) lens mounted on the giant Victor M Blanco Telescope, 2,200m (7,200ft) up in the mountains of the Coquimbo Region of Chile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny, fuzzy blobs. I\u2019ve spent a lot of time in the last few years looking at images of tiny, fuzzy blobs. They\u2019re only ever a few pixels wide, like smudges on a photo, but they could be the key that unlocks the mystery of dark matter. The blobs are galaxies: swirling pools of stars and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189492","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=189492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}