{"id":211732,"date":"2025-04-18T02:16:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/astrophysicists-propose-new-method-to-directly-detect-ultralight-dark-matter"},"modified":"2025-04-18T02:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:16:05","slug":"astrophysicists-propose-new-method-to-directly-detect-ultralight-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/astrophysicists-propose-new-method-to-directly-detect-ultralight-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"Astrophysicists propose new method to directly detect ultralight dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astrophysicists-propose-new-method-to-directly-detect-ultralight-dark-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The detection of dark matter, the elusive type of matter predicted to make up most of the universe\u2019s mass, is a long-standing goal in the field of astrophysics. As dark matter does not emit, reflect or absorb light, it cannot be observed using conventional experimental methods.<\/p>\n<p>A promising dark matter candidate is so-called ultralight dark matter, which consists of particles with extremely low masses. Astrophysicists have been searching for these ultralight <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dark+matter+particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dark matter particles<\/a> using various approaches and methods, yet they have not yet been detected.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Florida recently proposed a new method for the direct detection of ultralight dark matter particles, which is based on astrometry, the precise measurement of the positions and motions of celestial objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The detection of dark matter, the elusive type of matter predicted to make up most of the universe\u2019s mass, is a long-standing goal in the field of astrophysics. As dark matter does not emit, reflect or absorb light, it cannot be observed using conventional experimental methods. A promising dark matter candidate is so-called ultralight dark [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211732","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=211732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}