{"id":204765,"date":"2025-01-28T17:16:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/a-cosmic-ct-scan-shows-the-universe-is-far-more-complex-than-expected"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:16:30","slug":"a-cosmic-ct-scan-shows-the-universe-is-far-more-complex-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/a-cosmic-ct-scan-shows-the-universe-is-far-more-complex-than-expected","title":{"rendered":"A cosmic \u2018CT scan\u2019 shows the universe is far more complex than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-cosmic-ct-scan-shows-the-universe-is-far-more-complex-than-expected.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis process is like a cosmic CT scan, where we can look through different slices of cosmic history and track how matter clumped together at different epochs,\u201d team co-leader Mathew Madhavacheril of the University of Pennsylvania <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/penntoday.upenn.edu\/news\/less-clumpy-more-complex-universe\" data-url=\"https:\/\/penntoday.upenn.edu\/news\/less-clumpy-more-complex-universe\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">said in a statement.<\/a> \u201cIt gives us a direct look into how the gravitational influence of matter changed over billions of years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In order for the team to build this so-called CT scan of the universe, they needed to turn to light that has existed almost as long as the cosmos itself.<\/p>\n<p>With such ancient light, it\u2019s possible to track the changes the universe underwent as gravity reshaped it over around 13.8 billion years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis process is like a cosmic CT scan, where we can look through different slices of cosmic history and track how matter clumped together at different epochs,\u201d team co-leader Mathew Madhavacheril of the University of Pennsylvania said in a statement. \u201cIt gives us a direct look into how the gravitational influence of matter changed over [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204765","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=204765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}