{"id":193693,"date":"2024-07-28T10:23:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/dark-matter-seen-separating-from-normal-matter-after-galaxy-cluster-collision"},"modified":"2024-07-28T10:23:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T15:23:14","slug":"dark-matter-seen-separating-from-normal-matter-after-galaxy-cluster-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/dark-matter-seen-separating-from-normal-matter-after-galaxy-cluster-collision","title":{"rendered":"Dark matter seen separating from normal matter after galaxy cluster collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t7FBmBj7p0U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have uncovered the secrets behind an epic collision of two massive galaxy clusters, showing that dark matter and regular matter can actually separate during these huge events.<\/p>\n<p>Located billions of light-years away, these clusters are home to thousands of galaxies and provide deep insights into the complexities of our universe.<\/p>\n<p>When they collided, the dark matter \u2014 an invisible substance affected by gravity but not light \u2014 moved ahead of the normal matter, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/twisted-galaxies-millions-of-light-years-away-captured-by-the-vlt-telescope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">includes gas and stars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have uncovered the secrets behind an epic collision of two massive galaxy clusters, showing that dark matter and regular matter can actually separate during these huge events. Located billions of light-years away, these clusters are home to thousands of galaxies and provide deep insights into the complexities of our universe. When they collided, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193693","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}