{"id":212216,"date":"2025-04-23T14:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/half-the-universes-matter-was-missing-astronomers-just-found-it"},"modified":"2025-04-23T14:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:24:18","slug":"half-the-universes-matter-was-missing-astronomers-just-found-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/half-the-universes-matter-was-missing-astronomers-just-found-it","title":{"rendered":"Half The Universe\u2019s Matter Was Missing. Astronomers Just Found It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RchRrngfjQY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new analysis of the sky has finally confirmed where the missing half of the Universe\u2019s visible matter has been hiding.<\/p>\n<p>In the space around galaxies, it lurks as huge, invisible clouds of ionized hydrogen. Normally, this would be impossible to see \u2013 but a large international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has developed a technique that reveals its hiding places, out there in the darkness amidst the stars.<\/p>\n<p>Survey programs confirm the missing half of the Universe\u2019s material takes the form of an intergalactic mist of hydrogen expelled farther from the active cores of galaxies than anybody previously thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new analysis of the sky has finally confirmed where the missing half of the Universe\u2019s visible matter has been hiding. In the space around galaxies, it lurks as huge, invisible clouds of ionized hydrogen. Normally, this would be impossible to see \u2013 but a large international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has developed a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212216","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}