{"id":207671,"date":"2025-03-03T06:06:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T12:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-capture-the-universes-hidden-web-of-dark-matter"},"modified":"2025-03-03T06:06:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T12:06:42","slug":"scientists-capture-the-universes-hidden-web-of-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-capture-the-universes-hidden-web-of-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Capture the Universe\u2019s Hidden Web of Dark Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-capture-the-universes-hidden-web-of-dark-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dark matter, though invisible, weaves a vast cosmic web that binds galaxies together. For the first time, astronomers have captured a sharp image of one of these filaments, stretching 3 million light-years through space.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Using the powerful MUSE<\/p>\n<p>The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) is a panoramic integral-field spectrograph on ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope in Chile. It operates in the visible wavelength range and helps astronomers reveal objects that cannot be found in imaging surveys.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark matter, though invisible, weaves a vast cosmic web that binds galaxies together. For the first time, astronomers have captured a sharp image of one of these filaments, stretching 3 million light-years through space. Using the powerful MUSE The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) is a panoramic integral-field spectrograph on ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207671","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}