{"id":209527,"date":"2025-03-22T22:03:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T03:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-think-they-discovered-what-existed-before-the-big-bang"},"modified":"2025-03-22T22:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T03:03:37","slug":"scientists-think-they-discovered-what-existed-before-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-think-they-discovered-what-existed-before-the-big-bang","title":{"rendered":"Scientists think they discovered what existed before the Big Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-think-they-discovered-what-existed-before-the-big-bang.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the 1930s, researchers first noticed oddities in how galaxies moved, suggesting something invisible exerted gravitational pull. Decades later, studies of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrighterside.news\/discoveries\/astrophysicists-confirm-first-ever-detection-of-cosmic-strings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cosmic microwave background <\/a>\u2014the lingering radiation from the universe\u2019s birth\u2014confirmed dark matter\u2019s importance in shaping cosmic evolution.<\/p>\n<p>A pivotal study by the Planck Collaboration in 2018 revealed that dark matter makes up roughly 27% of the universe\u2019s total energy. By comparison, ordinary matter\u2014the stuff of planets, stars, and us\u2014accounts for only 5%.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have spent decades trying to understand what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrighterside.news\/space\/one-of-the-greatest-mysteries-of-science-could-be-one-step-closer-to-being-solved\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dark matter<\/a> might be. Supersymmetry, a popular theory in particle physics, proposes a \u201cpartner\u201d particle for every known particle, potentially offering clues about dark matter\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1930s, researchers first noticed oddities in how galaxies moved, suggesting something invisible exerted gravitational pull. Decades later, studies of the cosmic microwave background \u2014the lingering radiation from the universe\u2019s birth\u2014confirmed dark matter\u2019s importance in shaping cosmic evolution. A pivotal study by the Planck Collaboration in 2018 revealed that dark matter makes up roughly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209527","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}