{"id":197900,"date":"2024-10-18T11:25:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T16:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/physicists-show-that-neutron-stars-may-be-shrouded-in-clouds-of-axions"},"modified":"2024-10-18T11:25:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T16:25:59","slug":"physicists-show-that-neutron-stars-may-be-shrouded-in-clouds-of-axions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/physicists-show-that-neutron-stars-may-be-shrouded-in-clouds-of-axions","title":{"rendered":"Physicists show that neutron stars may be shrouded in clouds of axions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-show-that-neutron-stars-may-be-shrouded-in-clouds-of-axions3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of physicists from the universities of Amsterdam, Princeton and Oxford have shown that extremely light particles known as axions may occur in large clouds around neutron stars. These axions could form an explanation for the elusive dark matter that cosmologists search for\u2014and moreover, they might not be too difficult to observe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of physicists from the universities of Amsterdam, Princeton and Oxford have shown that extremely light particles known as axions may occur in large clouds around neutron stars. These axions could form an explanation for the elusive dark matter that cosmologists search for\u2014and moreover, they might not be too difficult to observe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197900","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\/197900","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}