{"id":20724,"date":"2016-01-13T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T22:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/a-dark-matter-galaxy-just-buzzed-the-milky-ways-edge"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:15:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:15:58","slug":"a-dark-matter-galaxy-just-buzzed-the-milky-ways-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/a-dark-matter-galaxy-just-buzzed-the-milky-ways-edge","title":{"rendered":"A dark-matter galaxy \u2018just\u2019 buzzed the Milky Way\u2019s edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-dark-matter-galaxy-just-buzzed-the-milky-ways-edge.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the past ten years, astronomers have puzzled over cosmic ripples in the structure of the Milky Way that didn\u2019t have a known cause. Thanks to a trio of pulsing stars, we now suspect a dwarf galaxy made of dark matter swung through our galactic neighborhood 500 million years ago \u2014 with results we can still see today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/221086-a-dark-matter-galaxy-just-buzzed-the-milky-way\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past ten years, astronomers have puzzled over cosmic ripples in the structure of the Milky Way that didn\u2019t have a known cause. Thanks to a trio of pulsing stars, we now suspect a dwarf galaxy made of dark matter swung through our galactic neighborhood 500 million years ago \u2014 with results we can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20724","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68848,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20724\/revisions\/68848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}