{"id":201691,"date":"2024-12-15T19:25:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T01:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/there-may-have-been-a-second-big-bang-and-it-could-solve-a-mystery-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2024-12-15T19:25:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T01:25:18","slug":"there-may-have-been-a-second-big-bang-and-it-could-solve-a-mystery-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/there-may-have-been-a-second-big-bang-and-it-could-solve-a-mystery-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"There may have been a second big bang \u2014 and it could solve a mystery of the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/there-may-have-been-a-second-big-bang-and-it-could-solve-a-mystery-of-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Far from being an edgier sequel to <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/the-big-bang-theory\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the sitcom starring Jim Parsons<\/a>, the \u2018dark big bang\u2019 \u2013 also known as the \u2018second\u2019 big bang \u2013 is believed by scientists to potentially be the event which brought about <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/dark-matter\" target=\"_blank\">dark matter<\/a> in our universe.<\/p>\n<p>Such an idea was floated by University of Texas researchers Katherine Freese and Martin Wolfgang Winkler in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prd\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevD.107.083522\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">published in <em>Physical Review D<\/em><\/a><em><\/em>back in April 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The abstract to the research notes the <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/big-bang\" target=\"_blank\">\u201chot big bang\u201d<\/a> is considered to be the origin story behind \u201call matter and radiation in the universe\u201d, and that there is \u201cstrong evidence\u201d that the early universe \u201ccontained a hot plasma of photons and baryons with a temperature\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far from being an edgier sequel to the sitcom starring Jim Parsons, the \u2018dark big bang\u2019 \u2013 also known as the \u2018second\u2019 big bang \u2013 is believed by scientists to potentially be the event which brought about dark matter in our universe. Such an idea was floated by University of Texas researchers Katherine Freese 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201691","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=201691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}