{"id":199314,"date":"2024-11-12T10:22:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/neutron-stars-may-be-shrouded-in-axions"},"modified":"2024-11-12T10:22:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:22:44","slug":"neutron-stars-may-be-shrouded-in-axions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/neutron-stars-may-be-shrouded-in-axions","title":{"rendered":"Neutron Stars may be Shrouded in Axions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neutron-stars-may-be-shrouded-in-axions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists show that neutron stars may be shrouded in clouds of \u2018axions\u2019 \u2014 and that these clouds can teach us a lot. 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 \u2014 and moreover, they might not be too difficult to observe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists show that neutron stars may be shrouded in clouds of \u2018axions\u2019 \u2014 and that these clouds can teach us a lot. 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 [\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-199314","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\/199314","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=199314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}