{"id":212489,"date":"2025-04-26T17:14:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/what-is-dark-energy-one-of-sciences-great-mysteries-explained"},"modified":"2025-04-26T17:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:14:42","slug":"what-is-dark-energy-one-of-sciences-great-mysteries-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/what-is-dark-energy-one-of-sciences-great-mysteries-explained","title":{"rendered":"What is dark energy? One of science\u2019s great mysteries, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-is-dark-energy-one-of-sciences-great-mysteries-explained.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dark energy makes up roughly 70% of the universe, yet we know nothing about it.<\/p>\n<p>Around 25% of the universe is the equally mysterious dark matter, leaving just 5% for everything that we can see and touch\u2014matter made up of atoms.<\/p>\n<p>Dark energy is the placeholder name scientists have given to the unknown force causing the universe to expand faster and faster over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark energy makes up roughly 70% of the universe, yet we know nothing about it. Around 25% of the universe is the equally mysterious dark matter, leaving just 5% for everything that we can see and touch\u2014matter made up of atoms. Dark energy is the placeholder name scientists have given to the unknown force causing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212489","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=212489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}